LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Year Honours
Brigadier C. C. Fairweather, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., chairman of the Teesmouth station branch, has been made C.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.
Major K. G. Graves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, has been awarded...
Category: Awards
Winifred and Shawford
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...
Black Diamond and Karoon
RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...
Dell Quay Sales Limited
A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...
Category: Advertisement
Divers Do It Overland
In July seven members of Aylesbury Green Park sub-aqua club completed a two-day bike ride and raised over £965 - half of which was donated to the lifeboats.
The event was a joint fundraising effort between the diving... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mrs. BUSTIN, Mayoress of Bermondsey, in recognition of her valuable co-opera- tion, a Framed Photograph, "The Life- hoat." To Councillor THOMAS R. EGBERTS, Mayor of Lewisham 1920-21, in recognition of his valuable co-operation...
Category: Awards
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
A Fishing Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.43 early on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that SOS signals were being sent from a small boat drifting south of Welling- ton pier. The...
Fidra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.39 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Fidra of Leith that one of her crew was in pain with...