LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Radio Ship Mi Amigo
Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...
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Helen Mary
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...
Category: Meetings
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services
None (66)
DECEMBER 5TH. - HASTINGS, KENT.
A red light had been reported on the water off Bexhill, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £44 17s..
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
Category: Services
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (204)
DECEMBER 29TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £16 16s..
Texan
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. CoBK.—On the evening of the 20th July a large steamer was reported in distress in Sevenheads Bay. The weather at the time was foggy, there was no wind, and the sea was smooth.
At 6 P.M., the Life-boat...