LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Days In 1949
IN 1949 the Institution held 905 flag days. The number of people who gave was 6,500,000, and the sum given was £83,549.
That was forty-six more days than in 1948, but the number who gave fell by nearly 654,000 and...
Category: Articles
Deaths
Deaths The following ex-coxswains have passed away in recent months: Mr. Alfred Woodford (Brooke, I.o.W.), Mr. Thomas Douglas (Holy Island), Mr. James Lethbridge (St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly), Mr. Eric Taylor (Whitby),Mr. William Parker...
Category: Obituaries
Their Majesties the King and Queen: Patrons
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 132 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 35 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1937 65,096 Their Majesties the King and Queen :...
Category: Committee
A Dinghy and a Boat
DOUBLE RESCUE Penlee, Cornwall. At 4.53 p.m. on 17th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy with two skin divers on board was in difficulties two miles off Penzance. At 5.2 the life-boat...
Confide
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1959, the police at Portaferry informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen off Strangford bar. At 5.30 the life-boat Constance Calverley was launched in a...
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE third annual Royal Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held at the Savoy Theatre (lent by Mr. Rupert D'Oyly Carte) on 5th December, in the presence of H.R.H....
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 20th March, 1939, a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that seven fishing boats of Beadnell were outside the harbour, but unable to enter owing to the very heavy...
A Yacht (2)
CREW WERE SAFE Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 2.38 p.m. on yth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Dinas Head in rough seas and a moderate to fresh west-southwesterly breeze. The tide was one...
The S.S. Goldbell
On the night of the 21st June the coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on Beachy Head ledge. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog.
The Eastbourne life-boat was off ser- vice for overhaul and the...
Pastime
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.50 A.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, a message was received from the Wyre lightkeepers, through the harbour authorities, that a motor boat was in difficulties about a quarter of a mile from King's...