LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings
Some of the 100 Guests In the Garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen Ofmeols Wirral They Enjoyed a Strawberry Lunch With Wine Organised Last Summer on Behalf of Hoylake Ladies' Guild Mrs Wiffen Can B
Some of the 100 guests in the garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen ofMeols, Wirral. They enjoyed a strawberry lunch with wine organised last summer on behalf of Hoylake ladies' guild. Mrs Wiffen can be seen standing in the background on the left... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Sands. A Yachtsman's Story of His Rescue
[The Yachting Monthly of March 1952 published an account by Mr.
D. K. Rae of a trip in his W-feet auxiliary yacht Sirius. It started from the Crouch, but the Sirius grounded on the Buxey Sand off Clacton. The crew laid out...
Category: Articles
Letters
Steadfast indeed I hope my comments will not throw your administration into a whirl, but being an ex-member of the Boys' Brigade and a Governor of the RNLI for many years, I was surprised to see in the latest Lifeboat that the new...
Category: Correspondence
Charlotte Ellen and Lorna
Nov. 19TH. - CLACTON -ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 3.30 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Clacton - On - Sea life-boat station that they had seen red Very lights to the southsouth- west, four miles from their look-out. At four o’clock...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
Category: Articles
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.
SIR GODFREY BARING, who retired from the Committee of Management in 1956 after having served on the Committee for forty-five years and having been the Committee's Chairman for thirty-three years, died on the 24th of November, 1957. Sir...
Category: Obituaries
Peel's Atlantic 21 In Fenella Bay
Peel's Atlantic 21 in Fenella Bay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
Category: Services
An Aircraft
Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...