LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan Accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock
Music to the RNLI's ears! Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock tries to find the tune on a £500 cheque presented by the society's chairman Mr Gilbert Clayton to Mr Doug Reeves, honorary secretary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of the Road: Hyde Park Corner Saturday May 27
End of the road: Hyde Park Corner, Saturday May 27.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflated Rubber Tyre
Life-boat 70-001 off The Mumbles Glamorganshire - At 7.21 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been carried through Inner Sound by the tide. The life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35)...
The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...
Obituary
Sir Charles H. Wilson, LL.D, F.S.A.A., of Leeds.
BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the...
Category: Obituaries
News from the Branches
Eastbourne.
AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...
Category: Branches
Pilot Me and Gem
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter...