LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
June
Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.
JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...
Category: Services
Vellum for Seamanship of a High Order
AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.
Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...
Category: Awards
An Aeroplane (16)
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. Coastwatchers had reported an explosion and a ship on fire, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that an aeroplane had crashed and caught fire.- Rewards, £23 4s....
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: August William Braund, coxswain of Clovelly lifeboat from 1956 to 1968. He had joined the crew in 1922 and served as bowman from 1935 to 1936, as assistant mechanic from 1936 to...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (52)
JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. It had been reported that a convoy had been attacked and that an aeroplane had come down, but though the life-boat found that a convoy had been bombed, she could not find any aeroplane. - Rewards, £5 3s..<...
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Fourth Annual Report
IT is now four years since the establishment of this Institution ; and the Committee, in making their Fourth Annual Report, beg leave to state, that they have continued to pursue the measures which they have deemed best calculated to effect...
Category: Annual Reports
An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
An Aeroplane (38)
MARCH 20TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had crashed and sank immediately. Trawlers nearby picked up two landing wheels and an airman’s cap, but the life-boat and a rescue launch found nothing. - Rewards, £...
An Old Age Pensioner Remembers.
An old age pensioner has sent five shillings to the Institution. He wrote that he had been rescued by the Gorleston life-boat in 1884.
Category: Articles