LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander F R H Swann Rnvr Chairman of the Committee of Management Received the Cbe from Hm the Queen on On March 19 It Being London Flag Day He
Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee of Management, received the CBE from HM the Queen on on March 19. It being London flag day, he bought his flag outside Buckingham Palace.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jannett and Jane
RAMSGATE.—At 12.45 A.M. on the 27th January, during a fresh N. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Vulcan, left the harbour in response to signal guns which had been fired by the light-vessels. On Hearing the North Sand...
Anja
Torbay, Devon. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 13th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Anja of Foxhol was on fire five miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
A Use for Old Ropes
THE ex-second coxswain at Padstow, though no longer able to go to sea, still helps the station by making mats out of its old ropes, a craft which he learnt while serving at sea. An active member of the crew also makes them. They are sold...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
The history of the Institution is now i being written, and will be published in j j the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th January, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Met Office
DIAL BEFORE YOU SAIL PORTSMOUTH BRIGHTON BOURNEMOUTH Now, before sailing, you can check the latest coastal weather conditions anywhere in the UK, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — simply by picking up your telephone.
The...
Category: Advertisement
The Admiralty Trawlers Pyrope and Tamarisk
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11 A.M. the life-boat crew were at the Town Hall, where a picture of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was being presented to them, when an an-raid alarm was sounded.
The crew made...
Marine Search and Rescue Organisation
THE report of the committee set up to review the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation of the United Kingdom has now been published. Its publication was reported briefly in certain newspapers, but had little editorial...
Category: Articles
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
Category: Articles