LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gerco
JAN. 25TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.16 P.M. on the 24th January the coastguard reported a vessel making signals on her siren. The night was misty with a light S.S.E. wind and a moderate swell. Later the coastguard reported that a...
Some Ways of Raising Money
More than £12,000 was raised by Bristol ladies' guild at its summer ball, held last July at the home of Mr and Mrs Cullum McAlpine, near Bath. On arrival, every lady was presented with a red rose, and when the 350 guests sat down to...
Category: Articles
Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
M.V. Cantonad
Storm search BRIXHAM COASTGUARD asked the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2030 on Thursday January 4 to put the lifeboat on stand by for MV Cantonad, a 2,200 ton Greek freighter with a crew of 16, reported listing...
Listings
On station D-659 George Godfrey Benbow (pictured), Howth, 7 February 2006 (D-530 withdrawn) B-775 Millennium Forester, Plymouth, 27 January 2006 D-657 Sally, Lytham St Annes, 18 April 2006 (D-509 withdrawn to the relief fleet) D-652 Team...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor1 One new honorary life governor, MR. B. V.
HOWELL, M.B.E., has been appointed in recognition of his services to the Institution.
At the annual general meeting of the Institution on...
Category: Awards
In the Summer Issue of the Journal It Was Reported That Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline Accompanied Newcastle Circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's Yacht Ocean Bound In to Blyth for a Recepti
In the summer issue of the journal it was reported that Blyth lifeboat, RNLB Shoreline, accompanied Newcastle circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's yacht Ocean Bound in to Blyth for a reception at the Royal Northumberland Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crossword—3
The winner of the January crossword—there was only one correct solution submitted—was: Mr. F. Ackroyd, 68 Horncastle Road, Boston, Lines. Solution to crossword was: Across: 1-Lifeboatman; 7-Banana, 8-Align, 9-Nod, 12-Emmie, 13-Parody,...
Category: Articles
A United States Jet Aircraft
Margate, Kent.—At 4.12 on the after- noon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that an explo- sion had been seen north-west of the coastguard station, and later stated that a United States jet aircraft had been seen to...