LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elsy, of Vastervik
AUGUST 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.52 in the morning the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel lying on the Goodwin Sands.
He telephoned the coastguard station for confirmation and at 9.40 the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary...
New Skylark
APRIL 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the naval base reported a fishing boat in difficulties off Foreness Point, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 P.M....
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AUG. 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after midnight the officer in charge of troops on the jetty informed the coxswain that he could hear calls for help from the water.
The night was very dark. An air raid was in progress and...
W. S. Treherne
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAT.—Guns were fired at Llanstephan during a gale from the S.W. and a heavy surf with thick rain on the 7tb. July, and a signal of distress was afterwards shown by the smack W. S. Treherne. The Life-boat City of...
The Institution's Engines
AT a luncheon of the Rotary Club at Deptford in July last an address was given by the District Organizing Secre- tary for Greater London. In the course of the address he referred to the fact that the engines used in Life-boats wereof the...
Category: Articles
The Chief Rabbi's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from the Very Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, Ph.D., ex- pressing the hope that the Jews of Great Britain will respond generously to the appeal of the life-boat service.
Category: Correspondence
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seriously sick person to Lochboisdale, as the local airport was fogbound. At 11.25 the life-boat Lloyd's put to...
Award to Master of Steamer
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Alice and Ella
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, a message was received that a fishing boat had broken down near Canvey Island, and at 2.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. There was a moderate...
A Yacht (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 10.22 a.m. on I3th July, 1964. the coastguard told the harbour master that a small sailing craft had capsized off Thatcher Rock and two people were clinging to it. At 10.28 the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight south...