LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander Oscar Henderson CVO CBE DSO RN
Commander Oscar Henderson, c.v.o., C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N., a member of the Committee of Management since 1948 and chairman of the Belfast branch, died on 3rd August at the age of 77.
Commander Henderson was one of the best...
Category: Obituaries
District Conference: Greater London
A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution,...
Category: Meetings
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote in- scribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Ferret
JANUARY 15TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. During the afternoon the Naval Control informed the life-boat coxswain that a barge was burning flares close to the Grain Spit,. Half a gale was blowing from the N.E., with a rough sea. The motor...
Gerco
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 11.16 P.M. on the 24th January, 1939, the coastguard reported a vessel making signals on her siren. The night was misty with a light S.S.E. wind and a moderate swell. Later the coastguard reported that a vessel...
Merry Widow
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1956, a beach patrolman at Egremont ferry rang up to say that a cabin cruiser was in distress and drifting off Egremont ferry. The life-boat Norman R. Cor- lett put out at...
Bolinders Co Ltd
When one MUST lead For the tough, tricky work of inshore rescue only the best in performance and the utmost in reliability are good enough.
That is why the Volvo Penta Aquamatic petrol and diesel engines fitted to the...
Category: Advertisement
Primrose
MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E.
wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Eeywood put off to...
Lombard
The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.
For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...
Category: Advertisement
Casita
On the afternoon of the 25th October the coastguard at Cliff End telephoned that a vessel was burning flares at the mouth of Keyhaven river. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was squally. The motor life- boat...