LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Here and There
Like father, like son A remarkable and honourable tradition is being carried on in the Keay family of Grayburn, near Invergowrie.
Captain T. A. Colin Keay is a member of the Committee of Management and chairman of Dundee...
Category: Articles
Gifts from Crews
THE Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat saved the French yacht Rose Marine and her three occupants during a strong N.E. gale with a rough sea on the 15th September, 1927. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given a...
Category: Donations
Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
Category: Articles
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
Memories of a Jersey Crewman
In place of a "Focus" report on a life-boat station we are publishing the following contribution sent to us by a crewman of the Jersey life-boat, who wishes to remain anonymous. The article was received after "Focus on St....
Category: Articles
Joy
MECHANIC SEES FLARE FROM MOTOR BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 5.6 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1962, the motor mechanic noticed a red flare four miles south of the life-boat station.
He informed the honorary secretary,...
Arctic Cycle Challenge
Fifty cyclists are being sought to undertake a once-in-a-lifetime ride to the most northerly lifeboat station at Honningsvag, Northern Norway, during the Arctic Cycle Challenge, taking place between 18-26 July 1998, in aid of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
Category: Articles
The Institution's President In Malaya
WHEN the Institution's President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, returned from her visit to Malaya at the begin- ning of December 1952, the Institu- tion sent to her the following telegram, signed by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.,...
Category: Correspondence
Junior Members of Wicklow Sailing Club Helped By Patrick Keogh Coxswain of Wicklow Lifeboat Organised a 24-Hour Sponsored Sail Last August Which Raised £520 T
Junior members of Wicklow Sailing Club, helped by Patrick Keogh, coxswain of Wicklow lifeboat, organised a 24-hour sponsored sail last August which raised £520. The money was donated to Wicklow branch funds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs