LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Down to the Last Detail: a Model of Rnlb Ruby and Arthur Reed
EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....
Category: Articles
Heart of Gold
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 17th of December, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a vessel in Pegwell Bay was burning flares. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis was launched at 6.26, two...
The Dredger Walter Glynn
A fierce westerly gale swept the Mersey during the early hours of the 27th August, and at about 4 A.M. the large dredger Walter Glynn, belonging to the Docks and Harbour Board, was capsized near the North Wall, Liverpool. She had a crew of...
S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....
Excel, of Goole
— On the 15th November the Life-boat Dorinda and Barbara on this station, put off, during stormy weather, to the assistance of the schooner Excel, of Goole, which had stranded on the Knock Sand. On reaching the vessel, which was in a sinking...
S.S. Gasray, of London
APRIL 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At nine at night a message was received from the St. Abbs Head signal station that a vessel appeared to have struck a mine. There was a light north-west wind and the sea was calm. At 9.8...
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
The Institution's First Gold Medallist
AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...
Category: Medals
Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
Gleaner, of Milford
On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45,...