LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON. — Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the house of the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the...
Category: Branches
Waiting for Rescue Part II By J D Sleightholme
In the second part of his examination of possible yachting predicaments, reproduced here by kind permission of Yachting Monthly, Des Sleightholme asks Coxswains Dave Kennett of Yarmouth, loW, Griff Jones of Porthdirllaen and Ian Johnson of...
Category: Articles
Commander F R H Swann Rnvr Chairman of the Committee of Management Received the Cbe from Hm the Queen on On March 19 It Being London Flag Day He
Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee of Management, received the CBE from HM the Queen on on March 19. It being London flag day, he bought his flag outside Buckingham Palace.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janet C
Tyne class holds coaster from rocks The Bronze Medal has been awarded to the Salcombe coxswain/ mechanic Frank Smith for a service to the coaster Janet C, which prevented the vessel running aground in rough seas and a near gale in the early...
Coxswain Charles Ward, of Aldeburgh
Coxswain Charles Edward Ward, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, who died at the beginning of July in his eighty-sixth year, had served as an officer of the Aldeburgh life-boat for thirty-three years. He was second coxswain from 1876 until 1882, and...
Category: Obituaries
Nono
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.48 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, a message was received from the Valen- tia Radio Station that a vessel was flying distress signals about one and a half miles south-south-west of Skellig's Rocks...
The Russian Fish Factory Vessel Robert Eykhe
AMBULANCE CALL WHEN on 16th January, 1972, a Russian fish factory ship, anchored 30 miles west of Guernsey, requested assistance to take off a sick man requiring hospital treatment, the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat went...
Francoise Delille and the U.S. Motor Vessel American Builder
Holyhead, Anglesey and Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6 a.m. on 20th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the Porthdinllaen honorary secretary thata French fishingvesselwas leaking badly thirty miles west of Bardsey...
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th January, 1914.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, G.B., C.M.G., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee