LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Volesus, of Grimsby, and Lord Nelson
Injured crews THE HARBOUR MASTER of Bridlington, Yorkshire, informed the honorary secretary at 1320 on Friday, December 28, 1973, that the trawler VolesusofGrimsby had an injured man aboard. The relief lifeboat Calouste Giilbenkian was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported 'by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
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Some Unusual Services
Rescue of Bathers.
DURING the summer there have, been several unusual calls made upon Life- boats, and in four cases it has been found necessary to launch them to bathers in distress. At Sennen Cove, on the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Income and Expenditure for 1937
Expenditure.
s. d.
s. d.
2,965 13 - 37,538 11 3 19,475 17 5 23,603 18 4 13,781 11 9 52,420 6 8 266,261 18 4 Life-boats :— 66,625 18 10 710 4 _' 31,074 8...
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Amulet
ENGINE FAILED, SAIL CARRIED AWAY Walmer, Kent.—At 8.17 on the night of the 9th of September, 1947, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the auxili- ary yacht Amulet needed a tow one mile east of St. Margarets Bay. The motor life-boat Charles...
Al Kwather I
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
A Trawler (17)
DEC. 18TH. - ABERDEEN, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A trawler had been reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft eighty miles to the E.N.E.
of Aberdeen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £23 17s...
An Aeroplane (51)
APRIL 5TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLANDS. A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea several miles to the N.W. of St.
Agnes, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 18s..
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (3)
APRIL 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE, AND SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea several miles off Mablethorpe, but nothing could be found.- Rewards : - Skegness, £8 1s. 6d. ; The...
An Aeroplane (88)
AUGUST 1 3TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A Hurricane aeroplane had come down some fifteen miles east of Orfordness, but the life-boat was recalled a few minutes after launching. - Rewards, £11 4s..