Captain W. J. Oliver, M.C., who was district organising secretary for the north-east of England from 1928 until 1952, died on the 18th of March, 1960, at the age of 72.
Captain Oliver and his family had a long association...
Category: Obituaries
By the death on September iyth. of Mrs. Edith Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Institution has lost one of the most devoted and successful honorary workers whom it has ever had. The Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.
The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking...
ABERDOVEY.—The brig Moringen, of Drammen, Norway, timber laden, stranded in a strong N.N.W. gale and a very heavy sea on the 16th June and became a total wreck. On receipt of news of the casualty, the Life-boat Thomas Nieeolls Stratford was...
WATCH AT THE BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.30 a.m. on I9th April, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was getting extremely bad on the harbour bar. As part of the fishing fleet was still at sea the life-boat Mary...
Anstruther combined the naming ceremony for their new life-boat The Doctors with their centenary celebrations. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester named the boat after a service of dedication on 28th July, 1965.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
RAMSGATE, NORTH DEAL AND BROADSTAIRS.
—In response to a telephone message and signals fired by light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Aid, left Ramsgate harbour, and the Life-boats Mary Somerville...
Deaths Mrs Chater-Hughes - Malvern fundraising branch member Charlie Cocks - former Redcar lifeboat station Crew Member, Mechanic and Signaller, and Station Administrator since 1992 Ken Eade - former Scarborough lifeboat station Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
SHOREHAM.— On the 20th July the barquentine Atlantic, of Areudal, which was riding at anchor off the harbour, was observed to be dragging towards theshore. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from the S. and there was a rough sea. At 2 P.M....
Miss Anne Lise Verndal and her mother. Twenty-seven in all were rescued by the Anstruther motor life-boat. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs