LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain William G. Sanders, Who Died In 1944 at the Age of 84.
Coxswain William G. Sanders, who died in 1944 at the age of 84.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eclipse
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—The schooner Eclipse, of Peel, Isle of Man, bound from Fleetwood for Liverpool, with gravel, was seen aground on the most dangerous part of Taylor's Bank, having stranded there in misty weather, on the morning of...
Service to Yacht Aground Off Weymouth Pier
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services
The Estonian Yacht Tuuneki
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Donaghadee, Co.
Down.— 25th October, 1937. The Estonian yacht Tuuneki, manned by an Estonian and his wife, who were makinga honeymoon tour to various countries, had got into difficulties off Torr Head...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightship
MARCH 23RD. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A telegram was received at 5.30 in the afternoon asking that the life-boat might be used to bring off a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightship. The weather was too bad for an ordinary...
Visiting Lifeboats came to Poole on passage to or from Jersey from West Germany and the Netherlands
THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...
Category: Articles
Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R.
Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...
Category: Obituaries
From the Gold Coast
THE Institution gets many letters from West Africa, asking for its "catalogue." Here is one of the latest. It comes from the Gold Coast.
"I am very happy to write you this letter. Please, sir, I beg you to...
Category: Correspondence
Saucy Sue
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...