LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
IN 1950, for the second year, the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, Sussex, were opened to the public on behalf of the Life-boat Service, by the kindness of their owners, Captain and Mrs. A. Gran- ville Soames. They were open for seven...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Earl Spencer
HOLYHEAD.—During a dense fog on the 8th January, signals were heard in the direction of the breakwater. The ThomasFielden Life-boat was launched at 5.30 A.M.and found the s.s. Earl Spencer, of Dublin, bound from Greenore for Holyhead, with...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: JANUARY 1995 Les Abbot, chairman of Long Eaton branch from 1980 until his death. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1991.
FEBRUARY 1995 David Calvin-Thomas MBE, chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Provider (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing boat Provider left harbour at 5 A.M. on the 10th February.
Conditions were bad, and at eight o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and the sea was making...
Kitty
Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.14 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1955, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore at Hook Ledge, Fairlight, and that her crew of two were shouting for help. At 9.35 the life-boat M.T.C...
Skylark
Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...
None (8)
DOCTOR TAKEN Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 12.45 P-mon 12 th April, 1964, the honorary medical adviser asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Colonsay at 2 p.m. to attend the resident doctor there.
The...
Pleiades
Swanage, Dorset. At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht whose sails had apparently been carried away seemed to be in difficulties a mile and a half off Peveril Point....
Mid-morning Mayday
15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
TUB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 271 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles