LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Vassilis
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1955, the Coast Life-saving Service at Came rang- up to say that a steamer had gone aground at Collough Rock near Carnesore Point and had sig- nalled for help....
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services
Lifeboat People
Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Timothy Hugh Bevan, chairman, Barclays Bank PLC. Sir Timothy has been honorary treasurer of Balcombe and Staplefield branch since 1964 and was awarded the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society
THE Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is now in its eighth year. It was formed in 1964 and at the outset had only eight members. From this very small beginning membership has grown over the years. At first progress was slow, but in the last...
Category: Articles
Ilb Launches
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Category: Services
Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
Category: Articles
Pausillipo
The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Eamsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward of the North Pier, on...
The Converted Yacht Thoma II,a Tug and a Fire-Float
OCTOBER 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7.45 in the evening the naval control asked the life-boat coxswain to assemble his crew, as a vessel, somewhere in the east anchorage, was sending out a wireless SOS, and a tug and a fire-float...
Massabielle
FRENCH TRAWLER REFLOATED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.50 on the morning of the 14th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was ashore six miles south of Tarbert harbour.
The...
The S.S. Somali
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MARCH 27TH. - BOULMER, NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian...