LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Henry Fargus
Mr. Henry Fargus died on 26th April at the age of 77. He was for many years a partner in the firm of Messrs.
Clayton, Sons and Fargus, the Institution's solicitors, and was the member of the firm who dealt with the...
Category: Obituaries
Vestal
SOUTHEND, ESSEX. — Signals having been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the night of the 19th January, the Lifeboat Theodore and Herbert was launched at 11 o'clock in a rough sea and a strong S.S.W. breeze, which afterwards increased to...
Black Adder
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...
Ariel
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was...
Fishing Boats (2)
ALNMOUTH.—Two Newbiggin fishingboats, driven from their grounds by a sudden storm on the 17th January, were unable to return to their port. As it was seen that they were in great danger in approaching the shore in the direction they were...
Maraat V
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1953, during dense fog, it was learnt at the life-boat station that a vessel had gone aground half a mile south of Staithes. At 2.10 the life-boat Robert Patton—The Always...
Indian Irb Crewman
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
Category: Branches
Lamorna (1)
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
Net Profit
Hilti Industries of West Bromwich supported two of their managers, Martin Parker and Jim Coombes (who is also a member of the Stourbridge branch) by sponsoring them in a 24- hour deep sea fish to raise funds for Aberdovey lifeboat..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of March, 1961, the honorary sec- retary noticed three local fishing vessels sheltering in the lee of the Fame...