LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Yarmouth Isle of Wight: During a Visit to the Isle of Wight Last October Hrh the Duchess of Kent
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: During a visit to the Isle of Wight last October, HRH The Duchess of Kent called at Yarmouth lifeboat station, meeting officials of the branch and of West Wight guild. While being introduced to the crew by Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1875-6
A perusal of the Annual Wreck Register recently issued for the year commencing on the 1st July, 1875, and ending on the 30th June, 1876, is by no means encou- raging. The wrecks and casualties which it so minutely and accurately chronicles...
Category: Articles
Henry Britton, Ex-Coxswain at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
HENRY BRITTON, for 50 years Coxswain of the Life-boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, died on March 20th last, at the age of 79.
He was appointed Coxswain in "1884, when the Station was established, and retired in 1914. During...
Category: Obituaries
The Private Wireless Transmitting Station Ocean 7 (Radio 270)
At 2.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the private wireless transmitting station Ocean 7 (Radio 270), had an injured man on board, and asked if the life-boat could take him off as he was hi...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1859
I.—Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.
Seconded by Vice-Admiral SIR GEORGE SARTORIUS.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL, Esq.,...
Category: Meetings
Loss of Life on the East Coast of Scotland
ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
Category: Articles
In Addition to Receiving the Gold Badge for His Services to the Rnli In 1982 Dr Sydney Peace (R)
In addition to receiving the gold badge for his services to the RNLI in 1982, Dr Sydney Peace (r) was further honoured at a gathering of his friends and colleagues in Orkney by the presentation of a pipe tune composed for him by Pipe Major... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Winifred, Lead Us and Energy
VERY ROUGH SEA At 6.45 a.m. on 29th November, 1965, three motor fishing vessels were reported to be still at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 7.5, an hour before high...
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Is Welcomed
HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is welcomed to Walmer lifeboat station with a bouquet of flowers from local Storm Force members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs