LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fiasco
Ramsgate, Kent. The East Pier watchman notified the honorary secretary at 12.45 P-m- on 20th May, 1965, that a small boat was in difficulties beyond the No. 3 buoy. At 12.55 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station,...
A Speed Boat (2)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.
on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...
Maisie
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 5.20 a.m. on I5th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Maisie of Caernarvon had broken down six miles south west by west of Portpatrick. A message received...
A Dinghy (2)
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 9.32 p.m. on 30th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted at the Inner Fame.
The life-boat Edward and Mary Lister was launched at 9.50. It was two hours...
Saucy Sue
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.30 on the evening of the 7th May, 1963, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had put to sea in the afternoon in a small boat and had not yet returned.
At 9.40...
The Importance of the System of Electrical Communication Established on the Coast for Life-Saving Purposes
IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
Category: Articles
The Case Tractor T29
The Case tractor, T29, was the third type L to be converted for use by the RNU by the Roadless Traction Co and had been stationed at Redcar from 1938 to 1957 and then at Filey until 1964. It was sold to a York farmer who used it for pulling... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sherkin Mail Boat
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that the Sherkin mail boat was in difficulties.
Her engine had failed, and she was drifting ashore. The life-boat...
Joannie
Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.38 p.m. on 2nd May, 1965, the east pier watchman saw a small boat in difficulties east of Ramsgate harbour. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, went out at 1.45 in a light southsouth-...