LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas and Bluejacket
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Cockle Light-vessel on the 16th January, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 7.15 P.M.
A light breeze was then blowing from S.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather...
Peggy
Bridlington,* Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th January the motor fishing boat Peggy left Bridlington harbour to fish about eight miles out.
Later a gale sprang up from the S.S.E.
and the sea became...
Capella
RAMSGATE, KENT.—During a very strong S.S.W. gale and a very heavy sea, on the 24th February, the ketch Capella, of Libau, tried to make Ramsgate Harbour, but when still about halfa- mile away her gear carried away and she became unmanageable...
Books
Books . . .
• In 1983 was published the first part of the late Grahame Farr's comprehensive Lists of British Lifeboats, covering non self-righting, pulling and sailing boats from 1775 to 1916. Before his death later...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June July and August 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
Category: Services
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 January and February 1972
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Baltimore, Co. Cork Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Berwick-upon-Tweed,...
Category: Services
Billow
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor1 One new honorary life governor, MR. B. V.
HOWELL, M.B.E., has been appointed in recognition of his services to the Institution.
At the annual general meeting of the Institution on...
Category: Awards
A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again...