LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
AT 4.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Newhaven (Sussex) lifeboat station, Mr. R. K. Sayer, was told by the coastguard that the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega was making water and might need...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards
The Holiday Property Bond
"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...
Category: Advertisement
Firefly
BROADSTARS.—The reserve Life-boat temporarily placed at this station was launched at 9 P.M. on the 12th May, in a heavy rolling sea and a N.N.E. wind, and proceeded to the assistance of a vessel which had burnt flares off the North Foreland....
The S.S. Margareta
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE history of the Institution is now being written, and will be published in the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta (1)
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...
The Minesweeper Cape Comorin
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY.
NOV. 12TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About three-thirty in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Whitby life-boat station that a vessel was ashore close under the cliffs...
H.M. Coastguard
The Institution's best wishes for many happy years of retirement go to Commander D. F. White, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. (Retd.), who relinquished his post as Chief Inspector of H.M. Coastguard at the end of 1965.
Commander...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services In March, April, May, June and July. 260 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services