LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Cross Retires.
Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.
These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...
Category: Articles
Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
Category: Committee
Delga I
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.50 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, information was received that the trawler Delga I of Grimsby had an injured man on board and required a doctor. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a...
Endeavour, Noel, Venus, Prosperity, Progress, et al
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4 A.M. on the 22nd April eight motor fishing boats went to sea in calm weather. Later on the wind rose considerably from the N.E., bringing a strong sea, accompanied by heavy showers of snow. As the harbour entrance...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.23 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1956, the Rye police reported that there was a young girl in the sea off Camber. At 5.35 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a...
Allan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.59 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a barge close to the pier was sending morse signals indicating the need of a life-boat. At 12.15 the life-boat Sir...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been recently founded at Wicklow, and a life-boat on Mr. BEECHING'S prize model modified in correspondence with the boats on the Institution's plan has been...
Category: Articles
Oredian
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the ore carrier Oredian of London had an injured man on board and had asked for a doctor. As it was low water and no...
Great Old Lady
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
La Colina
HELP FOR SICK MAN At 9 p.m. on the same day the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel La Colina would be arriving off Mounts Bay at 11 o'clock, bringing a sick man on board who needed hospital treatment....