LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry
AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Peregrine
In the case of the Walton rescue, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was called out at 10.30 P.M. on the 29th December, a telephone message having reported that the s.s. Peregrine was ashore on the Longsand with about 60 passengers on board,...
Open House
Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...
Category: Articles
Ruffian
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
Seafarer II
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternooon of the 30th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message from the honorary secretary of the Bridlington life-boat station that the fishing boat Seafarer II of Bridlington had broken...
Crown of Germany
A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
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Lives and Yacht Saved
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
M.F.V. Cawsand Bay
Brede on service THE FIRST SERVICE performed by the 33ft Brede class lifeboat Ann Ritchie while she was on operational evaluation trials at Oban was to go to the aid of the 55ft MFV Cawsand Bay. The fishing vessel, on passage to fishing...
Lucinde of Memel
On the night of the 17th September, 1859, the Prussian brig iMcinde, of Metnel, ran ashove off Mis- ner Coastguard Station on the Suffolk coast.
Intelligence of the same was immediately conveyed to Southwold, with the...