LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
New Books and a Play
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
Category: Articles
General Sir Reginald Wingate
BY the death of General Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., on the 28th of January, 1952, at the age of 91, the Committee of Manage- ment lost one of their most distin- guished members. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Sir Ronald Radford
SEPTEMBER 1995 Sir Ronald Radford KCB MBE, a life vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Ronald was elected to the committee of management in 1977 and was appointed a vice-president in 1986 and a life vice-president in 1991. He was also chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Sir Colin Campell
On the 4th October the brig Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, in making Rye Harbour, grounded on the bar. The Rye life-boat landed the master and crew, and on the following tide, the weather having mo- derated, they again proceeded to the brig,...
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aldeburgh, Suffolk August 9 Amble, Northumberland July 4 Angle, Dyfed June 2, 24, July 3, 8 and August 15 (twice) Anstruther, Fife June 15 and August 28 Appledore, North Devon June 10 and July 31 Arklow, Wicklow July 12, 18, 21 and August 16...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
1st January Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.
CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...
Category: Branches
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
A Noble Memorial
GIFTS or bequests for any purposes are always most gratefully received by the Committee of Management. The most acceptable and most generous of all is a gift or bequest for general purposes, which leaves the Committee free to apply it in any...
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