LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Yacht Aquila
Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...
The Ocean Pride, True Vine, Treasure, The Victory, Boy Arthur,Star of Peace
Amble, Northumberland.—When the local fishing fleet was returning from sea on the morning of the 18th of Sep- tember, 1952, the boats found it diffi- cult to enter the harbour owing to the heavy swell. At 11.15 in the morning- the life-boat...
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APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.
The...
Spurn Head (From page 95)
a wooden half-lifeboat plaque made from the wreckage of the Peterhead lifeboat Alexander Tulloch which was wrecked in 1914 (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer, 1973), is a well-known maker of matchstick models. For example, using 1,500 used matchsticks,...
Category: Articles
A New Type of Life-Boat
FOLLOWING on the Barnett Twin-Screw Life-boat, and the Watson Cabin Life- boat, both Life-boats specially designed to be able to carry out services at a considerable distance from their Stations, the Institution has now designed another new...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
When the Barnt Green ladies' life-boat guild had their annual meeting the collecting box from the Barnt Green sailing club was opened. It contained over £3 —mostly in half-crowns. This is because there is a local rule in the sailing...
Category: Donations
Gerlisa
Aground in a storm IT WAS BLOWING A GALE from the south south east, gusting to storm force 10 at times when, on the evening of Friday December 12, 1986, the honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station received news that a fishing...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on this page.
The original painting by Mr. Rowland Fisher, R.O.I., S.M.A., was...
Category: Advertisement
St. Joseph (1)
Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...