LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.
The Chairman observed that it had been well...
Category: Meetings
Book Reviews
MR. C. R. BENSTEAD in Shallow Waters (Robert Hale, 21/-), has produced an engaging, lustily written account of almost anything which may happen and has happened in the coastal waters of Britain. His range is extensive.
On...
Category: Articles
Urmajo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.19 early on the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on to the Goodwin Sands, inside the Xorth Goodwin buoy, and was firing rockets. At 2.38 the life- boat Greater London,...
Venture
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Venture, of Folkestone, with one man aboard, was overdue from a fishing trip off Shakespeare...
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.20 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1959, a watchman on board the navigation barge moored off Lytham told the honorary secretary that a pas- sing vessel had reported that the pilot cutter St....
Tribute to Life-Boat Designer
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Awards to Life-Boat Workers
MR. R. H. MAHONY, of Ballycotton, CAPTAIN G. B. PIGGOTT, of Barmouth, and MR. S. VALENTINE, of Girvan, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an honorary worker. This is...
Category: Awards
Books
Reviews of what’s new on the shelves this season
The storm prophet
by Hector Macdonald
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This extraordinary novel is set...
Category: Articles
Expedit
ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 15th April, a brigantine was seen approaching the shore from the eastward.
As she was showing a signal of distress the Peoples Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched...
Ursula and Sallie
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to the assistance of the fishing-cobles which had been overtaken by a sudden S. gale on the 2nd December. Most of the boats suc- ceeded in getting into safety, but two of them, named the Ursula...