LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
Category: Articles
Foam, of Dun Laoghaire
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.
THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...
Category: Services
Twenty-Two's Watch
LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Briardene and the S. S. Roine
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.8 early on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Briardene, of Sunderland, had collided with the S. S. Roine, of Helsi...
Listings
Blue Peter IV is centre stage CBBC 8/ue Peter presenter Konnie Huq named the latest addition to the RNLI's fleet of Blue Peter-funded lifeboats at the 2005 London Boat Show in January. Gathered round the RNLI exhibition stand, the crowd...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
Category: Articles
Amy II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a message from the British ship Cornea. She had the Dutch yacht Amy II in tow, disabled by an...