LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birgitz and Riki Pia
Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...
The Train Ferry S.S. Hampton Ferry
Dover, Kent.—At 9.17 on the morn- ing of the 8th of July, 1951, during a dense fog, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that the train ferry, S.S. Hampton Ferry, of Dover, had collided with the breakwater. At 9.20 the life-boat Southern...
The S.S. Bluestone
Workington, Cumberland.—At noon on the 13th of September, 1952, a radio signal was received from the S.S. Blue- stone, of London, which was anchored off Workington that a member of her crew needed medical help. The life- boat N.T. was...
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd September, 1858. Captain LAMBERT PERROTT, in the Chair.
. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Tonton Alexandre
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.55 on the morning of the llth of February, 1959, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the honorary secretary that a Frenchtrawler was in difficulties between Corsewall and Campbeltown. Further enquiries were made...
Gracie
North Sunderiand, Northumberland.— At 9.32 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1955, the Seahouscs coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Longstone lightvessel that a fishing boat, with one man on board,...
Polstjarnan
SWEDISH YACHT IN PERIL Hasting*, Sussex.—On the 22nd of October, 1947, the Swedish yacht Polstjarnan was alongside the pier with her engine broken down. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that she was bumping badly against the...
Naming Ceremonies
TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...
Category: Inaugurations
Contents
Contents 3 Lifeboat Services 4 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 9 Volume XLIV XT 1 Central Appeals Committee 16 Number 452 Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld, Poole 16 Operation Lifeboat 17 Family Profile by Joan Davies...
Category: Contents