LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Members of Committee of Management
COMMANDER SIR REGINALD LEEDS, Bt, R.N., and Mr. H. A. W. Oughton, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Reginald Leeds served in both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force,...
Category: Committee
A Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—29th January.
A yacht had gone aground, but her crew got safely ashore.— Rewards, £8 17s. 9d..
A Motor Boat (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—18th June, 1939. A motor boat had been reported, showing distress signals, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £7 16s..
A Small Fishing Boat
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.—2nd November, 1937. A small fishing boat was overdue at Aignish, but got back without help.—Rewards, £9 19s. Sd..
A Sailing Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. — 26th August. A sailing boat had capsized, but her occupants were picked up by other boats. A donation was received from the owner.—Rewards, £4 13s.
Coxswain Mann, of Aldeburgh
Coxswain C. D. Mann, of Aldeburgh, died on 15th February last, at the age of sixty. He came of a family of Life- boatmen. Both his grandfather and father served in the Aldeburgh Boat before him, and he succeeded his father as Second Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Edith, of Lowestoft
DOVER.—On the 12th March, at 6 A.M., when blowing hard at E., the sloop Edith, of Lowestoft, with a crew of 10 men, and remained aground. The wind and sea increasing, at 8.30 the Life-boat Royal Wiltshire was launched to her assistance, and...
Remedy, of Whitstable
The Royal Wiltshire life-boat at Dover remained alongside the schooner Remedy, of Whitstable, which was in a dan- gerous position near the Admiralty Pier, until the vessel was got but of danger.
Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1852 this Institution adopted a new description of life-boat: many of the boats which it at that time possessed were worn out, and the result of the-competition for a prize offered in the previous year by His Grace the Duke of...
Category: Articles