LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December (1)
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an...
Category: Services
Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
An Aeroplane (194)
JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
The S.S. Collingdoc
JULY 13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Just after 6 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a ship had been mined about half a mile S.S.W. of Southend pier, and the motor life-boat...
A Ship’s Boat
APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th June, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
Peter Farnworth
Another prepared to show his face after ten years of beard is Peter Farnworth who persuaded colleagues in the Control Systems and Accessories Department of Rolls Royce, Derby, to part with a total of £105 to go towards Cromer's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Dinghies
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say the Royal Lymington yacht club had reported that a fourteen-foot dinghy had capsized off Hurst Point; that another...
Colonel J. Benskin
COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.
He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...
Category: Obituaries