LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Air Marshall Sir Brian E. Baker, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC
October 1979 Air Marshall Sir Brian E. Baker, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, AFC, who W3S awarded the silver badge in 1965 and honorary life governorship in 1971. Sir Brian became honorary secretary of St Andrews branch in 1952 and had been a strong...
Category: Obituaries
Golden Age, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th February the ship Golden Age, of Liverpool, 1,062 tons burthen, stranded on the " Roar Bank," off Littlestone, the wind blowing a fresh gale from the east.
At daylight on the 19th she was...
Old Age and the Life-Boat Service
Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.
An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...
Category: Articles
Frederik and Steam Trawler Ben Aden
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...
Margaret and Ann
At 8.45 on the morning of the 13th June a message was received that a vessel was in distress near Strumbles Head about three miles from the Life-boat station.
The No. 2 Life-boat Appin was promptly manned and proceeded to...
The S.S. Isleman and the S.S. Kia
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...
H.M.T. Ben Ardna and H.M.T. Simerson
MAY 12TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 3.10 A . M . the Tynemouth coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress off Souter Point, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 3.30 A.M. A fresh N.N.E. wind...
Ann and Elizabeth
NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th November, while a whole gale was blowing from the N,, the dandy Ann and Elizabeth, of Cardigan, homeward bound in ballast, was seen drifting towards the beach. Efforts were made to save the...
Provider and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that two fishing cobles were at sea in very bad weather conditions. He had spoken to Flamborough coastguard, who had said that one of the...
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
Scheme of Co-operation between the Institution, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the British Red Cross and St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
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Category: Articles