LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pumping power
13 February: This catamaran was holed on rocks, and her owner was struggling with the ingress of water with his own pump. Sunderland lifeboat crew were called upon to help, and launched both lifeboats – D class...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies: Isle of Man
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.
Category: Inaugurations
Teazer
RED ROCKETS SEEN At 9.34 p.m. on 27th November, 1963, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been sighted four miles south-east of St. Peter Port harbour. There were light airs and a smooth sea...
Around the Fundraising Regions
branches and guilds in the Southern and Republic of Ireland regions SOUTHERN ENGLAND RNLI 17 Cobham Road Ferndown Wimborne Dorset BH21 7PE Tel (0202) 861166 Fax(0202) 861116 Regional Manager: Mrs E. W. Nelson Berkshire Ascot Bracknell and...
Category: Branches
Penthesilea (1)
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Conlea and M.V. Winchester (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1956, a wire- less distress message was received at the St. Peter Port signal station from the M.V. Conlea, of London, which...
Rnli Lottery
Since 1979 Chelsea Pensioner Company Sergeant Major Albert Spurdin has been a regular, and colourful, visitor to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show persuading the public to put money into his collecting box.
In...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1952
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
Category: Services
The S.S. Eden
FLEETWOOD.—It was reported that a steamer was ashore on Sunderland Bank, at 6.30 P.M., on the 27th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W. and a heavy sea. The Life-boat, Child of Hale, proceeded as soon as possible to the vessel in tow...
None (3)
— On the evening of the 26th January, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was on fire about seven miles east of the Mull of Galloway. A moderate north gale was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea, and the weather was very...