LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rose of June
OUT OF CONTROL At 9.7 a.m. on 26th October, 1964, the coble Rose of June, with a crew of three, was reported to be out of control in a slight sea and light airs from the southwest.
The tide was half an hour after high water...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...
Category: Articles
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
Phillis and Mary, of Blyth
At daylight on the 12th September the brig Phillis and Mary, of Blyth, which had been dismasted during a fearful hurricane the previous night, was observed, with signals of distress flying, off this coast. The life- boats stationed at...
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1939 to 31st January, 1940
Central and Outer London.
BEXLEY HEATH.—Rummage sale, whist drive, and dance, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress, all arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Guild has adopted the lifeboat crew at the Dungeness...
Category: Branches
City of Bristol
WITHERNSEA.—The fishing smack City of Bristol, of Hull, stranded about a mile S. of the Life-boat house during a S.E. by S. wind, a heavy snowstorm, and a chopping eea, on the 5th of January. The Admiral Sous Life-boat was launched at 9.15 A...
Our Merchant Seamen
THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
The Ex-Naval Motor Vessel 1503 (1)
DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...