LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1975 January and February 1976
February 1976 Aberdeen, Grampian December 30 and January 29.
Aith, Highland February 6.
Amble, Northumberland December 14.
Angle, Dyfed January 1, 3 and 6.
Arbroath,...
Category: Services
Danny and Ness
FIREMAN TAKEN TO LEAKING TUG Caister, Norfolk. At 6.50 on the morning of the 21st April, 1962, the crew of a fishing boat came ashore to report that flares had been fired from two vessels about three miles northeast- by-north from Caister....
Orsidi and Cap Lizard
TWO YACHTS TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.45 a.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that distress signals had been seen to the northward. At 1.10 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis...
Cromarty and Hartlepool
The life-boat at Cromarty has been withdrawn and the conventional life-boat at Hartlepool has been replaced with a fast IRB.
These decisions follow a review undertaken by a working party of the Committee of Management of...
Category: Articles
Biscuits and Chocolate
THE Institution desires to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, Ltd., Messrs. W. and R. Jacob, Ltd., and Messrs. Peak Frean and Co., Ltd., for gifts of biscuitsj for use in the Life-boats; also to Messrs. Cadbury...
Category: Donations
Olga and Ruth Topping
The Life-boat was also launched at 9.20 P.M. on the 28th November, in response to signals of distress, and proceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the brig Olga, of Frederickstadt, and put a pilot on board. It was found that...
Hannah and Joseph
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th June the Life-boat John Gray Bell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hannah and Joseph, of Liverpool, ashore on Carnarvon bar, which vessel, after some hours' hard work on the part of the...
John and Robert
PORTHDINLLAEN. — A schooner was observed in distress, having lost all her sails, about two or three miles N.W. of Porthdinllaen Head, during a very heavy gale from N.N.W. on the morning of the 20th May. The Life-boat George Moore put off at...
Blanche and Sally
TWO BOATS FOUND At 10.26 a.m. on ipth August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's second coxswain that two fishing boats near Blakeney Overfalls were reported to be making very heavy weather and would probably need to be...
Adventure and a Coble
COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...