LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hazelwood II
INJURED MAN ON ISLAND Poole, Dorset. At 3.16 a.m. on 29th January, 1965 the police informed the honorary secretary that the Warden of Brownsea Island had informed them that a man with head injuries and practically unconscious had landed on...
Aries
SWANAGE.—On the llth November the Swanage Life-boat, Charlotte Mary, was the means of saving the smack Aries, of Cowes. That vessel was dragging her anchors in Swanage Bay, when the Lifeboat went to her aid through a heavy sea, and placing...
Thyminia
Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dunbar, East Lothian.—-At 6.25 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in Belhaven Bay. At 7.5 the life-boat George and Sarah...
Elsie Mabel
DRAGGING HER ANCHOR At 9.30 p.m. on ioth May, 1965, the coast life-saving service reported that a fishing vessel was in difficulties off the coast north-west of Galway Bay. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea at 10 p.m. in a...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
Category: Services
Brazil, of Liverpool
On the 26th De- cember the barque Brazil, of Liverpool, from Bangor to Maine, U.S., timber laden, having been disabled by loss of sails, was driven on the Salthouse Bank in a westerly gale, with a heavy sea running. On her being discovered...
Mr. Jack Hawkes
With the passing a few weeks ago of Mr. Jack Hawkes, of Ramsgate, the R,N.L.I. has lost one of the few remaining life-boatmen who could claim to have taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He was among the crew of the Ramsgate life...
Category: Obituaries
Violet's Dolls
Thanks to stalwart fundraiser Violet Howes, who has been knitting dolls and selling them in aid of the Institution for over 15 years. Although Violet is nearly 85 years old and suffering from arthritis, she produces a wide range of quality... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tonibell
OUT OF CONTROL Dover, Kent. At 9.1 p.m. on 3oth August, 1964, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small flare had been sighted to seawards. It was two hours before low water and very calm. At 9.16 the life-boat Southern Africa...