LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Walter J Cummins
At about 9 A.M. on the 6th March during a strong N.E. gale signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J.
Cummins, of Irvine, which was at anchor about one-and-a-half miles to the north- east of the harbour...
R.N.L.I. Horse Show
The annual horse show at Claygate, Surrey, which is known as the 'R.N.L.I. horse show' and is now one of the biggest shows in Surrey, will take place in June. Through Mr. John Bullock, a director of the Chrysler Motor Group, the...
Category: Articles
Conwy - West Division
Lifeboat stations can be in very scenic surroundings, such as here at Conwy in Gwynedd, where the boathouse for the station's D class is almost in the shadow of the famous , castle, and backs on to part of the Town... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, Colwyn Bay
By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked...
Category: Obituaries
Smiling Morn
At 10 A.M. on I the 10th April information was received ! that a vessel was ashore about two miles ! to the west of Newhaven Breakwater.
The new motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton, which has recently been sent to I...
Fishing Cobles
On the 29th June at 10.2 A.M. the coxswain reported that the local cobles were in danger off St. Paul's Point, as the sea was making and the wind rising. The weather was fine but a strong north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
A Motor Yacht
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 10.45 in a...
Old Bob Leach
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1952, the life-boat honorary secretary saw a fishing boat about five miles to the south-east burn flares. At 4.36 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched in a slight sea with a...
Cloetta
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...
Provider
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in worsening weather, and at two o'clock the life-boat Friendly Forester was launched in a rough sea. with a strong northerly gale...