LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (24)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
An Aeroplane (24)
JULY 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and was signalled by an R.A.F. launch to return to her station. - Rewards, £11 5s..
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
DECEMBER No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock...
Category: Services
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
DURING the present year the Institution has presented Vellums to thirteen Stations which have been in existence for a century and over. Reports of seven of these...
Category: Articles
Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., of Torbay
MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
Category: Obituaries
At a Coffee Evening Held to Mark the Retirement of Erdington
At a coffee evening held to mark the retirement of Erdington, Birmingham, branch honorary treasurer Mr H. Higton, seen here (I.) shaking hands with chairman Reginald Wood, £60 was raised; this brought the branch's takings to a very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...
Category: Correspondence
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 30TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £3 18s. 6d..
February
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
Category: Services