LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
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awarded annually, is a decorated lifebelt given to the branch by HMS Stubbington earlier in the year.
A supper, organised by Brough and District ladies' guild, was held at Humber Yawl Club on January 26 with 90 people...
Category: Donations
Rake's Retreat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1961, a cabin cruiser was seen to have tried unsuccessfully to pick up a moor- ing buoy at Friar's Bay, Beaumaris. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a very...
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Wells, Norfolk.—13th February, 1938.
A signal was reported, but no trace of any vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £25 18s. 9d..
A French Trawler
AUG. 14TH. - PENLEE, AND COVERACK, CORNWALL. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her. - Rewards : Penlee, £12 1s. ; Coverack, £10 6s..
A French Trawler (1)
AUG. 14TH. - PENLEE, AND COVERACK, CORNWALL. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her. - Rewards : Penlee, £12 1s. ; Coverack, £10 6s..
A Rowing Boat
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that two men were in diffi- culties in a rowing boat. They had anchored two miles east of Lytham pier and were flying a...
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (6)
DECEMBER 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 11A.M. the crew assembled for an exercise, but as a strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and some fishing boats were out the launch was delayed and the crew stood by. Incoming trawlers...
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...
Category: Obituaries