LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.J. Suckling,
R.J. Suckling, vice chairman of Bognor Regis branch. He joined the committee in 1967 and received the Institution's statuette in 1990..
Category: Obituaries
Several Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN.—On the 8th November, a very heavy gale from the N.E. sprang up at about 10 A.M., and several fishing cobles which had gone out at 4 o'clock, when it was quite calm, were in very great danger. At 1 P.M. the storm increased to...
Welsh Girl
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that the local fishing boat Welsh Girl had gone aground on the South Bank at the harbour bar. At 4.15 the...
Sheffield Park
The gardens shown the public in aid of the Life-boat Service (See page 152). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seaspray
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 4.5 p.m.
on 14th March, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties aboutone mile off Skegness pier. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched...
Hrh Prince Michael of Kent
HRH Prince Michael of Kent addresses the visitors before presenting the awards to voluntary workers and the awards for gallantry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosa Josephs
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On the 18th January a heavy N.E. gale was experienced here, accompanied by snow. During the height of the storm the crew of the Life-boat Exeter, in response to signals, launched their boat to the help1 of the crew of a...
An Aeroplane (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...
Navarre
Wick, Caithness-shire. — At about 11.20 P.M. on the 2nd September, 1939, information was received from the coastguard that the trawler Navarre, of Grimsby, was ashore about five miles south of Duncansby Head. A fresh southerly wind was...
S. B. Colling
— The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 23rd February, as a whole N. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and a snow blizzard, and some fishing boats were still at sea. She found the Scarborough fishing boat S. B...