LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fleurita
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 28th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fleurita of Chester had engine trouble and was drifting off Rocky Coast. At 12.52 the...
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...
A Vessel (6)
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A vessel was reported to be in difficulties, with a sloop standing by, but in the gale which was blowing, with a very heavy sea running, it was impossible for the sloop to pass a rope and...
A Motor Boat (2)
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.20 p.m.
on i6th July, 1966, a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off West Mouse and her occupants were seen waving an orange flag. There was a strong northerly breeze with a rough sea. The...
Black Cat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.45 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1958, a message was received from the motor vessel Channel Trader, on passage from Newhaven to Guernsey, that shehad passed the fishing boat Black Cat three miles north...
Decca Radar Ltd
Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.
That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe harbours.
When the call is for solid...
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Mina
The Life-boat and steam-tug also proceeded out at 6.15 A.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Mina, of Kalmar, Sweden, bound from Shields to St. Vincent with coal, which had gone ashore on the Brake Sand during a fresh E.S.E....
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...
Evening Song
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 7.44 p.m. on 24th March, 1967, the look-out at Cemaes Bay reported a small boat making for Holyhead in a very rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The lifeboat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, ontemporary duty...
Martell Cognac
MARTELL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
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