LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Two Dinghies (5)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
None (2)
Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vi—Foundations
PLANKING OF THE HULL being finished, work can begin on building up the inside structures of the boat. First the way is cleared by stripping out the temporary building frames. They will be replaced by the four marine plywood bulkheads which,...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1935
1st February to 30th April, 1935.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
Blyth Spirit
Tow across the bar THE HARBOUR MASTER at Soilthwold, Roger Trigg, who is also senior helmsman of the town's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, The Quiver, was contacted by the fishing vessel Blyth Spirit on the evening of Thursday...
Letters
Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
Category: Correspondence
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of April, 1950, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...