LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crossword competition
WINNER OF THE WINTER journal crossword competition, compiled by Coxswain Arthur Liddon of Dover, is S. N.
Perkins of Kingston-on-Thames; his was the first correct solution (shown on the right) to be drawn after the closing...
Category: Articles
Cassell & Co. Ltd
Safety and Survival at Sea by E. C. B. LEE OBE, C.ENG, FRINA and KENNETH LEE MBBS, LRCP, MRCS, DIH An anthology of first person accounts of man's ability—or inability—to survive at sea by the victims of all types of sea...
Category: Advertisement
Sophia
PALLING. — While a whole gale was blowing from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th January, intelligence was received that a vessel had gone ashore about a quarter of a mile from Hasborough, and that the services of the...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Seven of the cobles were off at their fishing on the morning of the loth April, and at about 8 A.M., when they began to return to harbour, it was seen that the sea on the bar was too heavy for any such craft to attempt to come in without...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...
Category: Awards
RETIREMENT
Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie, C.B., D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy, retired in February and his place as ex-officio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, is beingtaken by Rear Admiral G. P. D. Hall,...
Category: Articles
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Steamer Denham
JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew...
Various Vessels (1)
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
The S.S. Therese
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.15 A.M. on the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that a steamer had run ashore about a quartei of a mile south of the West Pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The motor...
None (15)
YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.
The woman had been unsuccessfully...