LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug
Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
S.S. Queensbury
JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
Another Happy Collector
A LADY member of the Institution's branch at Crewe is a very keen gar- dener. She sells both plants and cut flowers, taking them by bus into the town where she has many standing orders and more requests than she can fulfil. The manager...
Category: Donations
Rfd-Gqltd
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.
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Strathalford
APRIL 3 0 T H . - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.10 A.M. information was received that a vessel was in distress on the North side of Wick Bay. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat City of...
Fosna
Cromer, Norfolk.—A wireless message sent out by the motor vessel Fosna, of Bergen, that she wished to land a sick man at Cromer at 3 P.M., was passed to the life-boat station, through Mablethorpe and the coastguards, at 1.55...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1929
Time of 1929. Launching.
Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.
1. 2.40p.m.
„ 2. 10.0 a.m.
„ 2. 3.15p.m.
„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.
9. 11.25...
Category: Services
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services
Sea Mist
JANUARY 1ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. On New Year’s Eve, at about 9.30 P.M., the coastguard notified the life-boat authorities that a boat was ashore on Christchurch Bar, but not in immediate danger. A moderate E. wind was blowing...