LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crystal, of Dieppe
Exmouth, Devon.—The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 4.52 P.M. on the 15th November, as the coastguard had reported that a trawler, at anchor one mile off West Bay, was in need of help. She had asked for a tug earlier...
Miss Anne Norris,
Miss Anne Norris, president of Sherborne branch since 1979 having served as its first chairman when the branch was formed in 1973. Until the formation of the branch she had previously been president of the Sherborne ladies lifeboat...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs I P Macintyre
Mrs I. P. Macintyre, patron of Airdrie branch since its re-constitution in 1980. Mrs Macintyre served as the guild honorary secretary from 1930 to 1957 and as president from 1957 to 1980; she was awarded a framed picture in 1941, the gold...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Elizabeth Wiles,
Mrs Elizabeth Wiles, founder chairman of the Louth branch.
Mrs Wiles founded the branch in 1970 and was awarded the Silver badge in 1986 upon her retirement as chairman. She continued to organise Louth flag days andreceived...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (7)
JANUARY 7TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At the request of the naval authorities the life-boat went to a spot where a Coastal Command aeroplane was reported to be circling over either an aeroplane or bodies in the sea, but she...
Northward (1)
OCTOBER 2ND. - FRASERBURGH. ABERDEENSHIRE The life-boat was launched twice to the help of the steam trawler Northward, from which she had previously rescued the crew of ten. For details see September 24th, page 103.
A Boat (1)
LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...
Letters and Membership
etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...
Category: Correspondence
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
A Dinghy (5)
PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...