LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
JUNE 29TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A small rowing boat had been reported missing, but could not be found. It was found abandoned in a cave on the following day. - Rewards, £13 16s. 9d..
Kate Agnes, of St Johns
On the 10th February, the barque Kate Agnes, of St. John's, N.B., came broadside on the beach near Irvine during a strong wind from W.N.W. The same life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and in two trips brought safely ashore the...
Messages of Congratulation from Abroad
ON 4th March, the hundredth birth- day of the Institution, the following telegrams of congratulation were received from abroad—from foreign Governments, Life-boat Services and Shipping and Sailors' Societies. They are another tribute to...
Category: Correspondence
Admiral Stuart Nicholson, of Bude
BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...
Category: Obituaries
Naming of the Rnlb Newsbuoy
Saturday September 29, 1984 ON A BRIGHT, early autumn day, one of the RNLI's newest lifeboats lay afloat, bedecked and sparkling, awaiting her naming ceremony. An ordinary enough scene for those familiar with such occasions but this...
Category: Inaugurations
Coxswain William Lennon of Donaghadee
Coxswain William Lennon of Donaghadee. William Lennon joined the lifeboat crew in 1956 and became second coxswain in 1981 before being appointed coxswain in 1983. He was awarded the long service badge in 1982. A fisherman by trade, Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. City of Melbourne
Nov. 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At midnight a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the South Goodwins. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 12.20 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...
New Ways of Raising Money
A MEMBER of Newhaven Ladies' Life- boat Guild has presented a silver challenge cup for an annual tug-of- war competition. Seven teams took part in the first contest for the cup held on the 29th of June, including teams from the Worthing...
Category: Donations
New Ways of Raising Money
When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.
The players at these tables...
Category: Donations
A Washington Aircraft (2)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...