LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December
1st October to 31st December.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on 4th November at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, by permission of the Governor and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- General the...
Category: Branches
The Shipwash Lightvessel
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 9.43 on the morning of the 8th of October, 1957, Trinity House Depot at Harwich asked if the life-boat would bring ashore the sick master of the Shipwash lightvessel, who needed medical treatment urgently.
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The Corton Lightvessel
SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
The Former Ship's Boat Tangle
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 12th of June, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a woman living at Elie that an outboard motor boat on passage from St. Andrews to...
The silent epidemic
WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR
In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...
Category: Articles
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
The Life-Boat
The late BENJAMIN BUCK GREENE, Esq., of Kensington Palace Gardens . 100 - - The late WILLIAM BICHABDSOST, Esq., of Sheffield 50 - - The late Mrs. H. GLABKE, of Ellhoughton, Yorkshire . . 19 19 - Voted the thanks of the...
Category: Poetry
Major-General R H Farrant, CB
It is with deep regret that we record the death in February of Major-General R H Farrant. CB, chairman of the Institution from 1975 until his retirement in 1979.
Major-General Farrant joined the Committee of Management of...
Category: Obituaries
An American Fortress Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An American Fortress aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of ten were rescued by a motor fishing boat. - Rewards, £15 12s.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...
(Right) the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli at the Banqueting House Reception With (I to R) Mrs Siler Admiral Owen W Siler Commandant of the Us Coast Gua
(Right) The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, at the Banqueting House reception with (I. to r.) Mrs Siler, Admiral Owen W. Siler, Commandant of the US Coast Guard, and Dr L. Shackleton Fergus, a member of the appeal committee. (Above)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs