LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Taking the plunge Thirty-six volunteers made their first parachute jump from 2,000 feet at the Al Skydiving Centre, Newnham in June and three weeks later Jim Marriott, landlord of the Ship Inn and organiser of the jump handed a cheque for...
Category: Articles
Candy
Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...
Guiding Hand
At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
Fund Raisers
Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...
Category: Articles
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th May, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., Y.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence...
Category: Committee
Thomas and Jane, of Dundee
on 1st Jan., 1861, saved 3 men from the schooner Thomas and Jane, of Dundee..
An Air bed
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 25th May. The amount raised was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936.
Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Branches
Cachalot and Wombat and Mako
Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...