LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosenburg
The Ramsgate Coast- guard telephoned at 11.30 A.M. on the 14th November that the Tongue Light-vessel had reported a ship's Life-boat drifting by in a westerly direction. The Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
ND De Lourdes
About 12.15 P.M.
on the 13th February distress signals were reported from the Princess light- vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched and proceeded to the " Shingles," where the ketch ND. de...
Sailing Dinghies
On the afternoon of the 20th of June.
1959, the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was on a routine exercise near Gettiswick Bay, Angle Point, when several sailing dingh- ies taking part in the Milford...
Obituary: Derek Calderwood
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries
Hidden Treasure Shops
I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.
I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...
Category: Articles
Noble Example
AT the Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in March last, Admiral Sir GEO. F. SEYMOUR, K.C.B., some time since Commander-in-Chief of H.M.'s Squadron on the North American Station, read the following interesting...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THERE is a time-honoured saying that " it is a long lane that has no turning," and the old saw may not inappropriately be applied at the present time to the Life-boat Saturday Fund. For the last three years the Life-boat Saturday...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Deventia
At 2.10 on the morning of the 12th February, the Coxswain at Plymouth received information from the Coastguard that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the s.s. Deventia, of Workington, was in distress off Bolt Head, eighteen miles...
Cairngorm
DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...