LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edith, Lady Bird, O.B.E.
EDITH. LADY BIRD, O.B.E., died on the 1st June, 1961. She joined the Com- mittee of the Central London Branch of the Ladies Life-boat Guild in 1933, was Deputy Chairman in 1948 and Chairman from 1957 to 1959.
She was...
Category: Obituaries
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SEPT. 1ST. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
A bather had got into difficulties in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find no sign of him and he was believed to have been drowned. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
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A Wreck
I saw a wreck upon the ocean flood.
How sad and desolate ! No man was there; No living thing was on it. There it stood.
Its sails all gone; its masts were standing bare ; Tossed in the wide, the...
Category: Poetry
Fishing Boats
MARCH 1ST. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Staithes fishing fleet put to sea about eight in the morning in rough weather. By 9.30 the wind had increased to a north-north-west gale, bringing with it a very rough sea, and at...
A German Trawler
1st December.
A German trawler, the Spitzbergen, of Wesermunde, stranded and the life- boat crew assembled, but did not launch, as the vessel was not in im- mediate danger. Later a message, believed to have come from...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
A Yacht
APRIL 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small yacht, with three men on board, was in distress in a gale, but the men were rescued by a fishing smack. - Rewards, £8 9s.
(See Sheerness, “ Services by Shore-boats,”...
Guiding Star
WHITBURN.—The Life-boat William and Charles was launched at 11.30 p.m.
on the 1st June and landed a man from the coble Guiding Star. Whilst he was out attending to his crab-pots, a heavy sea rose and he was in considerable...
French Medals for Swanage
On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...
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