LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Juliette
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—About five o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland was returning to her station after overhaul at Cowes when she saw distress signals from the motor yacht...
Altonia
HAD BROKEN DOWN At 3.35 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a white cabin cruiser had fired red flares but did not appear to be in danger. It was one hour before low water with a rough sea and a...
Seton Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 6.39 p.m.
on 22nd March, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Seton Queen was reported to be running short of fuel. She had been fishing between Barr Rock and May Island and was overdue. This had been...
A Pulling Boat (1)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.41 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small pulling boat was in difficulties 2 1/2 miles S.E. from Berwick Pier, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at...
American Shipper
SICK MEN LANDED Penlee, Cornwall. At midday on ist January, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man needed to be landed from the motor vessel American Shipper, at approx. 3 p.m. The lifeboat Solomon Browne launched at 2.50...
A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT OUT OF FUEL Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 p.m.
on ist August, 1965, a speed boat was reported drifting out to sea off Lee-over- Sands. The people in it were waving their arms. There was a light southerly breeze...
None (3)
JANUARY 10TH. - WALMER, KENT.
Red flares had been seen, but they were from R.A.F. aeroplanes on night exercises. - Rewards, £29 0S. 6d..
A Motor Fishing Vessel
AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He telephoned the honorary secretary immediately,...
North-Western Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds in the North-West of England was held at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June.
Two hundred and thirty-six delegates attended, from forty-four branches and guilds. The delegates were officially...
Category: Meetings
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries