LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Lifeboats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From 1st January to 16th April, 1874
FROM IST JANUARY TO 16-rn APKIL, 1874.
John and Jenefer, fchooner, of Fowey 5 Mary, smack, of Grtmsby 6 Jessie, schooner, of Blylh 6 /Via, barqne, of Blyth— Saved vessel and crew 11 EXKX. brig, of...
Category: Services
Penlee Anniversary
THE 150th anniversary of the founding of the Penzance and Penlee station was celebrated by a dinner held at the Queen's Hotel, Penzance on the 12th of March, 1954. The vellum com- memorating the 150 years service of the station was...
Category: Articles
Alderman Joseph Crookes Grime, Manchester, Salford and District
Manchester, Salford and District.
By the death on 80th June, at the age of sixty-four, of Alderman Joseph Crookes Grime, O.B.E., J.P., during his year of office as Lord Mayor of Manchester, the Institution has lost a very...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Darlington
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 20th March the s.s. Darlington, of Stockton, bound from Dundee to Middlesborough in ballast, struck on the rocks at the N.E. corner of the island, called False Emmanuel Head, during a dense fog. Fortunately, her signals...
Vervine Blossom
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 2.22 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1958, a resident of Wexford told the coxswain that he had heard from one of his own fishing boats that the fishing vessel Vervine Blossom was aground on the...
Seamist
Damaged steering YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station at 0236 on Monday May 3, 1982, that the yacht Seamist of Rhu had sustained damage to her steering gear two hours earlier on...
Coxswain James Cable, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
James Cable, ex-Coxswain of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk) Station and a member of the Branch Committee, died on 5th May of this year, at the age of 78. Few, if any, Coxswains have had more brilliant careers, and his name was known far beyond the...
Category: Obituaries
The Duchess of Gloucester at Ramsgate
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER named the new Ramsgate life-boat Michael and Lily Davis on the llth of June, 1954. A certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life- boat station at Ramsgate...
Category: Inaugurations
Provider (4)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...