LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dusty Miller
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.53 P.M.
on the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about two and a half miles E.S.E. of Skegness Pier. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with...
Awards to Honorary Workers
J To LADY BAKING, in recognition of her valu- ' able work in the organization of the London j Life-boat Bazaar, the Gold Brooch.
To Miss SILVESTER, in recognition of her I valuable services as Honorary...
Category: Awards
Clarion
A DANGER TO TRAFFIC Blackpool, Lancashire.—On the after- noon of June 5th, 1947, the life-boat coxswain and others had under observa- tion a boat which could be seen several miles to the south-west. There was no sign of life on board, but...
Japan
A LIFE-BOAT service much on the same lines as our own is now being established in this wonderful country under the patronage of one of the Royal Princes.
For this purpose information has been sought from and gladly...
Category: Articles
Mr. James Hartley Burton, Beaumaris
BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...
Category: Obituaries
St.Helier Jersey August 23 1987:
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jupiter
At about 11 A.M. on 28th February the Hoylake Coastguard reported that a small motor boat was at anchor or aground near Spencers Spit, and that they were keep- ing her under observation. Later they reported that the boat had disappeared, and...
Lucille
A motor boat named Lucille, belonging to the local Sea Scouts, left Piel about 10 A.M.
on the 20th August for a return trip to Fleetwood. She had not returned by 10.20 P.M., and no news could be got of her, so the Motor...
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...