LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Sheena
Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.
Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL IN NEAR GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, At 8.30 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1962, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that the mother of a seaman on board the Blackwater...
A Raft
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...
A Rubber Dinghy
FEBRUARY 13TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 12.29 in the afternoon the coastguard reported smoke at sea and what appeared to be a man in a rubber dinghy. A westerly wind was blowing, with a bad ground swell. The motor life-boat...
Agm from Page 87
from page 87 Miss F. M. Coleman Honorary secretary of Shipston-on- Stour branch since 1940; awarded record of thanks in 1948 and silver badge in 1963.
Mrs A. L. Kenyon President of Bramhall and Woodford ladies' guild...
Category: Meetings
SUDDEN SINKING
At sea, things can go very wrong very quickly, as Penarth lifeboat crew found out on 12 June
Kath Fisher couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning, she thought: ‘Is this an omen that something’s about to happen?’ At 1.15am, her...
Category: Articles
Flirt
Margate, Kent.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was overdue. At 1.18 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.
IT) was launched in a heavy sea, with...
No. 155
JUNE 6TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
At 8.40 A.M. a request came from the naval officer at Penzance, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to go to the help of the naval motor launch No. 155, and the motor life-boat...
Joint Exercise
An exercise was held in May, 1968, in which an R.A.F. Shackleton from Kinloss co-operated with the Lerwick life-boat. The exercise took place at night.
The Inspector of No. 2 Life-boat Area, Lt.-Cmdr. L. A. Forbes, R.N.,...
Category: Articles
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles