LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiseppina
GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 9th April, at 10 P.M., during a strong N.E. wind and heavy sea, a large vessel was observed to be driving towards the beach. The Abraham Thomas Life-boat proceeded out to her, and found she was the barque Guiseppina N....
Duguesclin
GREAT YARMOUTH. — On the afternoon of the 16th February, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched, and proceeded through heavy sea to the ketch Duguesclin, of Newcastle, which had shown a signal of distress while riding in the roads. She was...
Dinas
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—The smack Dinas, of and from Carnarvon for Ehosneigir, in ballast, with a crew of two men, was driven on the rocks in a heavy seaand a moderate S.S.W. wind on the 13th October. Six men put off in a shoreboat to her...
Margaret and Helen
On the evening of the 15th November the whole of the local fishing fleet, excepting the Mar- garet and Helen, had returned from the fishing grounds on account of bad weather. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. About 5.30 P...
Provider
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—While the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing on the 25th of October, 1949, a south-easterly wind, increasing to gale force, made a very rough sea. The life-boat Howard D. was launched at eleven o'clock...
Ocean Sunbeam
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 10.48 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a drifter was on the Newcombe Sandbank about a quarter of a mile to the east; and at 10.50 the life-boat Michael Stephens left her...
Arthur Capewell, Q.C.
MR. ARTHUR CAPEWELL, Q.C., a member of the Committee of Management, died on the 18th of October, 1957, at the age of 54. He was Deputy Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions and held the posts of Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees...
Category: Obituaries
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...
Category: Obituaries
Captain D. H. Gibsone, D.S.O., R.I.N., Berwick-On-Tweed
CAPTAIN DONALD H. GIBSONE, D.S.O., R.I.N., who died on 7th April, in his 69th year, had been honorary secretary of the Berwick-on-Tweed station since the end of 1925, and in 1936 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in...
Category: Obituaries
Useful
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Mary Isabella was launched at 6 P.M. on the 29th January in a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea and succeeded in saving the crew of four hands of the schooner Useful of Barrow-in-Furness from a position of...