LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (128)
AUGUST 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A British fighter aeroplane had been reported down in the sea to the E.N.E. of Gorleston, but the lifeboat was recalled when it was learned that the aeroplane had come down sixty miles...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to stations have taken place since last summer—at Sunderland and Hartle- pool last October, and at Newhaven in April of...
Category: Articles
Tamworth Ladies' Guild Fund Raising Dinners
Around 180 people packed a Dray ton Manor dining room for one of the Tamworth ladies' guild fund raising dinners. Guest speaker was Derek Scott, retired coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, who treated the guests to a selection of humorous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
It Had Never Been Done Before—Not Surprisingly—
/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Ex-Naval Whaler
IN DISTRESS ON A PLEASURE TRIP Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.25 in the morning of the 30th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a small boat flashing the SOS signal in Durlston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 2.50 in a...
TRAPPED IN AN INFERNO
EASTBOURNE | 22 MARCH
Two men in Eastbourne had a lucky escape when their motor cruiser went up in flames. Local fishermen pulled them to safety and used the cruiser’s anchor to prevent it from drifting towards the pier. There was...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (144)
OCTOBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER YORKSHIRE. At about 6 A.M. news was received from the signal station that a British aeroplane had crashed off North Somercoats. A southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City...
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (1)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 13th February, 1936.
SIR GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Decided that humble and loyal messages be presented to H.M. King Edward VIII and H.M. Queen Mary, on the death of...
Category: Committee