LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Golf Clubs
IN 1949 sixty golf clubs held competi- tions in aid of the Life-boat Service, as compared with sixty-five in 1948, and in the Institution received from them £273 as compared with £278 1948..
Category: Articles
Mr. Edward Dean, Oldham
Mr. Edward Dean, honorary sec- retary of the Oldham branch, who died on 3rd March of this year, had been associated with its work for forty-one years. In 1931 he was awarded the Institution's gold badge for his long and distinguished...
Category: Obituaries
A Small Boat (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk.—10th July. It had been reported that there was wreckage off Weybourne and that a man was in the water, but it was found that a small boat had been washed off the beach, with no one on board.—Rewards, £21 15s....
A Steamer (4)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—1st October.
A steamer carrying pit props had capsized, and a trawler had picked up one survivor, but a search for the rest of the crew was without result.— Rewards, £6 14s. 6d..
A Steamer (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—1 2th August, 1938. A steamer had been reported in need of help off Flatholm, but when the life-boat, with the honorary secretary, Mr. A. C. Jones, in command, arrived at Flatholm, she found that her services were...
A Yacht (5)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—21st June, 1939. The Kentish Knock Lightvessel had reported that a yacht had carried away her mast, but the yacht cleared herself and went on her way.—Rewards, £14 15s. 6d..
Threepenny Bits for Fifty Years
THE Institution has received a gift of 60 threepenny bits from a lady in Jarrow. She writes that she has been collecting threepenny-bits for 50 years, all of which she has sent to the Institution or put in life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
A Ship
Exmouth, Devon. — llth August, 1939. A ship had been reported by the coastguard as apparently on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was presumed that the ship had gone on her way.—Rewards, £17 17*. 6d..
A Small Vessel
Longhope, Orkneys.—3rd September, 1939. A small vessel had been reported flying distress signals, and the life-boat searched a wide area but found nothing.
It was learned later that the vessel had been taken in tow by a...
Two Longshore Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—12th October, 1939. Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her skipper...