LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Veruna
In mode- rate but hazy weather in the afternoon of the 5th March the steam yacht Varuna, of New York, stranded on the edge of the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.40 P.M.
the haze lifted, and the Coastguard on watch observed the vessel...
Fishing Cobles (3)
At 6.30 A.M. on the 26th December fourteen of the cobles belonging to Filey put to sea for the purpose of hauling their lines, and at about 8 A.M. the wind commenced to freshen, causing most of the boats to run for safety. By 10 A.M. all the...
Eglantine
At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with...
Royal Humane Society Awards
MR. J. K. BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station, and seven other men, have been awarded certificates of commen- dation of the Royal Humane Society.
They helped to rescue five men of the crew...
Category: Awards
Tubo
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 5.5 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1957, the Trevose Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch vessel Tubo was in difficulties twenty miles west of Lundy and that her cargo of grain was shifting...
Letter
• I was interested in the note 'What is a covenant?' on page 687 of THE LIFE- BOAT for September, 1969. It implies that unless the payer suffers tax at the full rate the covenant is not applicable, whereas as I understand the...
Category: Correspondence
Little Ouse
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
None (2)
Aberdovey, Merionethshire. At 9.15 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the police reported that three wildfowlers were stranded on the south bank of the estuary.
At 9.30 the IRB launched on an ebbing tide in a south easterly gale...
None (1)
Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the evening of the 22nd of October, 1959, the district nurse told the honorary secret- ary that the daughter of the life-boat coxswain had appendicitis and asked for the life-boat to land the child at Rossaveal pier,...
Cover Picture
Number lifeboat, the 54ft Arun City of Bradford IV, off Spurn Point. The lifeboat, her coxswain, Brian Sevan, and his crew are the subject of a comprehensive BBC! television documentary series due to start in late Autumn. To film the seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs