LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hondeklip
On the 18th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the E.S.E.
with a rough sea, the brig Hondeklip, of Swansea, bound ftom Ghent for Dublin, was observed ashore on the north-east part of the Goodwin Sands. The...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Waratah
FIREMEN HELPED At 7.35 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, while the life-boat coxswain was fishing at sea, he saw the converted ship's lifeboat Waratah burning red flares just south of Peninnis Head. He immediately gave help and succeeded in...
Two Centenary Life-Boat Bazaars
THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.
The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...
Category: Articles
Karel
DUTCH CREW AIDED At 8.35 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, Valentia radio station told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Karel had grounded on Mutton Island, near Galway docks. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...
Clarke, Chapman and Co. Ltd
Clarke, Chapman Ships' Auxiliary Machinery BACKED by three quarters of a century of experience in the manufacture of Deck Auxiliaries, the Company has built up a tradition of efficiency and dependability which extends throughout the...
Category: Advertisement
Jenny Lind
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—At midnight on the 4th January, during a very strong gale from S. by E., a light was observed from a vessel which was apparently ashore in South Bay. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen were at once summoned, and...
The S.S. Cambrian Coast
COLLIER HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.50 in the morning of February 10th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that North Fore- land Radio had picked up a call for help from a vessel in the Lowestoft area.
A...
Algue
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.30 on the morning of the 28th of November, 1952, a vessel was heard to be making distress signals, and at 3.44 the life- boat S.G.E. was launched in a rough sea with a fresh east-north-easterly gale blowing. The...
Antiques Aid RNLI
Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.
Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...
Category: Donations
Waldemar Peter
GERMAN GRATITUDE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 p.m. on 4th December, 1964, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, told the honorary secretary that the German cargo vessel Waldemar Peter had on board a sick man who needed medical...