LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...
Category: Awards
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Happy Spring
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.5 on the evening of the 9th of October, 1959, a flare one mile north of Caister was seen.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a moderate swell. A moderate...
Rescue from a Shelled Steamer. Spanish Ship Attacked Off Cromer
SHORTLY after three in the afternoon of 2nd November, 1938, the coastguard at Cromer reported flashes and gun fire at sea. The firing shook the windows, and people, who crowded to the cliffs, could see the flashes. With binoculars, a large...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
Category: Donations
Third Bronze Medal for Irish Coxswain
AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...
Category: Services
A Lobster Creel Boat
Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
Letters
Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...
Category: Correspondence
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.
He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...
Category: Articles