LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Cromer, Norfolk.—About six o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1953, the coastguard passed on to the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg a message he had received from Sheringham that a small motor vessel close to the...
Brigadier R. J. P. Wyatt
BRIGADIER R. J. P. WYATT, M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P., District Organising Secre- tary for the South-East of England from August 1927 to December 1952, died on the 22nd of October, 1954.
Brigadier Wyatt was educated at...
Category: Obituaries
Elizabeth Taylor
Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...
Fiducia
Caister, Norfolk.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 21st of July. 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Fiducia, of Rotterdam, was ashore on the mainland at Waxham, but as the weather was calm she did not need help. The Fiducia...
Electrical Communication on the Coast for Lifesaving Purposes
THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
Category: Articles
The Propulsion of Life-Boats
IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings
Nostalgia Direct
the essential Foster & Allen AVAILABLE NOW IN A SUPERB Enjoy the beautiful, relaxing music of Foster & Allen on this wonderful collection - reminisce to Maggie and A Bunch Of Thyme plus who can forget Old Flames and their chart...
Category: Advertisement
Eight Life-Boats Search for An Aeroplane
ON 21st January, 1937, an aeroplane, G—AELT, with two men on board, left Liverpool for Belfast at ten in the morning. She did not arrive. A southerly wind was blowing, varying from a fresh breeze to a strong gale.
The sea...
Category: Services
The S.S. Clavering (1)
SEATON CAREW and HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.—A terrible disaster, involving the loss of several lives, mostly Lascars, took place on the 31st January at the mouth of the River Tees. The s.s. Clavering, of London, a large vessel of upwards of 3,300...