LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (7)
Poole and Bournemouth and Swanage, Dorset.—25th September. A small boat capsized near Old Harry Rocks at night, and one of the men on board, after swimming for several hours, reached Sandbanks and asked for help.
The...
Esme
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.15 in the morning on the 1st of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was in difficulties and making distress signals in Seaford Bay. Accordingly at 8.38 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
Mary Heeley
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 in the morning, on the 30th of April, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen off Onchan Head.
At 12.45 the life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a thick fog with a...
A Steamer (1)
Donagbadee, Co. Down.—7th April.
A report had been received of a collision off Blackhead, and the life-boat had gone to Blackhead, Co. Antrim. It was then found that it was Blackhead, Wigtownshire, on the Scottish coast.<...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...
New Ways of Raising Money
The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
Category: Donations
Captain D. H. Gibsone, D.S.O., R.I.N., Berwick-On-Tweed
CAPTAIN DONALD H. GIBSONE, D.S.O., R.I.N., who died on 7th April, in his 69th year, had been honorary secretary of the Berwick-on-Tweed station since the end of 1925, and in 1936 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
An Aeroplane (2)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
Muriel I
Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.36 in the morning of the 16th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor launch signalling for help off the harbour wall.
At 6.5 the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched in a...