LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Omega, of Newcastle
On the 23rd February, the ship Omega, of Newcastle, was stranded on the Cockle Sand, on the Norfolk coast, during a gale of wind. She afterwards drifted, and sankabout fourteen miles S.E. of Lowestoft.
The Yarmouth and...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.
last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Germania (1)
On the night of the 6th of May, 1955, the Eastbourne. Sussex, life-boat rescued a salvage party of sixteen men from the S.S. Gcrmania and four men from two motor boats which had been helping to unload her. For a full account of this service,...
The Navy's Help In 1941.
In 1941 the Navy contributed £3408 to the Life-boat Service. That is £1311 than in 1940, and seven times as much as in the last year of peace..
Category: Articles
Other Irb Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 39, 49, 62, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire -...
Category: Services
Two New Vice-Presidents
LORD SEMPILL and the Marquess Camden have been elected vice-presidents of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Lord Sempill has served on the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1927 and the Marquess...
Category: Committee
Young Robert
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1952, a message was received from the coastguard that a motor fishing boat had broken down off Torness and was burning oil rags as a signal for...
Spirit of Fred. Olsen
The new B class lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Scottish Highlands, has been named Spirit of Fred. Olsen. She is pictured after her naming ceremony, being taken from the station to the water for a display.
The...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Caronilla
The No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 8.45 A.M. on 9th November to the assistance of a steamer which had been reported ashore on the Kentish Knock Sand. The vessel proved to be the s.s.
Coronilla, of...
The Long Sand Lightship
HARWICH.—On the 30th January the Kentish Knock Light-vessel telephoned to Ramsgate that the Long Sand Lightship was flying a distress signa?, and a message was at once despatched by telegraph to Harwich to that effect. On receipt of the...