LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Theodora
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a N.E. gale, the Coastguard reported that a schooner was flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched, but considerable difficulty was ex- perienced, and she...
National Safety Week
THE National Safety Week Council, on which the Institution is represented, is arranging to hold its second Safety Week from llth May to 16th May next.
The object of the Week is to arouse the public to the need of additional...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th Febru- ary, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2...
Category: Obituaries
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, of Bradford
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, who died on 30th March, 1938, at the age of seventy-four, had been associated with the Institution's Bradford branch for seventeen years. He was its honorary treasurer and secretary from 1921 until 1932, and...
Category: Obituaries
An Appeal
THE following verses, an appeal to yachtsmen for the Life-boat Service, appeared in the Bulletin of the Cruis- ing Association for October of last year under the heading "Royal National Life-boat Institution." Beneath them was...
Category: Poetry
Annual Awards 1974
The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...
Category: Awards
Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
Category: Articles
Sir Peter Compston
Sir Peter Compston With deep regret we report the recent death of former RNLI Deputy Chairman, Vice Admiral Sir Peter Compston KCB.
Sir Peter had a long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy, including numerous...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Sinloo & S.S. Douglas
The s.s. Sinloo, of Newcastle, and s.s. Douglas, of Sun- derland, collided when near the Cross Sand Light-vessel in moderately fine weather, on-the 28th January. Guns were heard at Gorleston at 6.50 P.M., and the steam Life-boat James...
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...