LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bonnie Lad
A N.N.E.
gale sprang up suddenly early in the morning of the 9th May, while the fishing coble Bonnie Lad, of Scarborough, was at sea. The Life-boat Queensbury was, therefore, launched and proceeded to the Castle foot,...
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Information was received through the Portpatrick Coastguard at about 7.30 P.M. on the 5th January, that flares had been seen ofl Pladda Point. The Troon Motor Life-boat Sir David Rich- mond and the Girvan Motor Life'-boat Lily Glen,...
The Small Rowing Boat Winifred
The small rowing boat Winifred, of Ramsgate, with two men aboard, put to sea on the morning of the 13th July, but a thick fog came down and the men did not know where they were. Their cries for help were heard, and the Motor Life-boat...
Coxswain W. S. Dass, of Longhope
COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as...
Category: Obituaries
Catherine May
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd December, 1961, the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched for a routine exercise in a heavy swell. As she was leaving the harbour the coxswain saw the small motor boat...
A Sailing Dinghy (6)
DAMAGE BY WIND Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At 2.30 p.m.
on the same day, a capsized sailing dinghy was sighted three miles south-west of Egypt Point, Isle of Wight. Three people were clinging to the hull in moderate seas after a...
Lerwick's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Soldian With Her Crew and Crew Reserves She Was Named By Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution on September 12 19
Lerwick's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Soldian with her crew and crew reserves. She was named by HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution on September 12, 1978.
Included in the report of the ceremony published in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Visitors
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., visited the headquarters of the life-boat service at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, on 11th March. During his tour of the building the Duke of Kent visited all departments and met members of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain Gerald Rodger Cousins, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.)
Captain Gerald Rodger Cousins, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.), died on 3Oth May, 1965, aged 71. He entered the Navy in 1911 and served in destroyers in the First World War, at Gallipoli and later with the Grand Fleet. In March 1931 he was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
Wadebridge Branch's
Rescue demonstrations, sports, a barbecue and a sandcaslle competition, first prize for which went to a Cornish pasty, all added to the success of Wadebridge branch's beach fete held last August at Rock, on the Camel Estuary. That was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs