LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Greta
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—The motor life-boat J and W put out at 6.20 P.M.
on the 14th January, in a moderate E. wind, with a moderate sea, as the motor fishing boat Greta, of Portpatrick, which should have returned at 3 P...
Sir Henry McMahon
COLONEL SIR HENRY MCMAHON, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., who died on the 29th of December, 1949, at the age of 87, had been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment for thirty years, and was ap- pointed a vice-president in 1948. He ...
Category: Obituaries
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GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
Gadfly
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties in Dur- leston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby, was launched in a strong south-west...
Foxtrott
Berwick-on-Twe«d, Northumberland.— At 10.12 on the night of the llth of July, 1948, the coastguard reported red verey lights being fired from a yacht off Bummouth, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at 10.26 in a light...
A Christmas Gift
JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
Category: Donations
Religious Services
RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...
Category: Articles
Flying Christine
MOTOR LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN Selsey, Sussex.—At about 8.40 in the morning of February 6th, 1947, the coastguard reported that two motor' launches were flying signals two miles east-south-east of Selsey Bill Tower and it .was thought that...
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...
Mr. Barrie Bennetts
Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries