LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremonies: Scotland
FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...
Category: Inaugurations
Ferdinand Retzlaff
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...
St John
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 16 saved the yawl St. John, belonging to Ballinagoul, and her crew of four hands during a strong W.N.W. gale with heavy squalls on the 13th January. The vessel had been trawling near Ballina- courty...
A Bronze-Medal Service at Longhope
AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...
Category: Services
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
An Aeroplane (2)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argo
— On the morning of the 1st May the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Copt Point, between Hythe and Folke- stone. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was foggy. At first it was thought that...
Intrepid, of Liverpool
A vessel was observed off Whitehaven on the night of the 20th August, with signals of distress flying, while a very strong wind was blowing from the W.S.W., and the sea was running high. The Life-boat Elizabeth was imme- diately launched to...
Amice
MOTOR CRUISER ON THE GOODWINS Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.48 in the morn- ing of the 29th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a small vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands about three miles west by north of the East Goodwin Light-vessel and the...
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...