LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Francis Verrill
Francis Verrill, coxswain of Staithes & Runswick lifeboat from 1952 to 1966. Hejoined the crew in 1947 serving as bowman until 1952 when he became second coxswain, being appointed coxswain later that same year..
Category: Obituaries
Central Appeals Committee
Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
Category: Committee
Ways and Means
Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.
I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...
Category: Donations
Firefly II
SPEEDBOAT BROKEN DOWN IN HEAVY SWELL Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off Saltdean and that persons aboard were waving. The...
Jochelle
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the Barrow sands. At 11.40 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30) was...
Westmorland
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At10.10 a.m. on 28th November, 1969, a report was received that a member of the crew of the m.f.v. Westmorland needed urgent medical attention. At 10.30 the life-boat R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings in a...
A Dinghy (8)
At 4.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a red dinghy seemed in trouble off Penlee.
Meanwhile, Penlee fog station reported that the dinghy was in danger of being carried on to the rocks. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary...
Bobbie
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.
on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...
Ashdene, of Sunderland
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
Skylark (1)
DEC. 6TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX - At 11.50 A.M. it was reported that a fishing boat was flying distress signals about three miles SW. of Shoreham. A moderate N. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 12.41 P.M. the motor life-boat Rosa...