LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Highwave
JANUARY 29TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a steamer burning flares some three miles N.E. of the Knock Lightship.
A fresh E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow...
Pet, of Chester
Thurso.
Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March the news reached Thurso that a schooner, the Pet, of Chester, had gone ashore on the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five miles away. The night was foggy and very dark, with a...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased....
Category: Services
Nacelle
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.47 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that a small fishing boat off Foulney had hoisted a distress signal.
At 10.4 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was...
Sarah K.
Engine room flooded THE COXSWAIN of Wells lifeboat was informed by HM Coastguard at 1412 on Friday November 20, 1981, that there was a possible casualty 2Vi miles north of Brancaster, and the coxswain immediately passed on to the station...
Sincere (1)
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
Dusty Miller
ABERSOCH.—On the 10th October, a telegram was received from Barmouth, stating that a vessel was in distress, riding at anchor dangerously near to St. Patrick's Causeway, and that it was impossible for the Barmouth Life-boat to go to her...
Easting
YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break...
Naming Ceremony at Flamborough
THE motor life-boat stationed at Flam- borough last year was named on 28th August.
The Flamborough station was estab- lished in 1871 and has always had two life-boats, is of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10...
Category: Inaugurations
Statement of Funds and Assets at 31st December, 1967
1966 £ 273,351 696,080 969,431 1,514,395 196,000 £2,679,826 ENDOWMENT FUNDS (Income only from which is available for expenditure in accordance with donors' directions) RESTRICTED FUNDS (to be applied as directed by donors)...
Category: Accounts