LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sand Dredger Ron Woolaway
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.58 on the night of the 18th of June,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand dredger Ron Woolaway had capsized near Flatholm Island but that her crew of seven were safely...
Government Banquet to the Delegates
ON 1st July His Majesty's Government gave a dinner at Lancaster House in honour of the Delegates to the Con- ference. The Right Hon. Sidney Webb, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, presided, supported by the Right...
Category: Articles
Gallant Life-Boat Services In 1899
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.
AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.
At...
Category: Services
Royal Bank of Scotland
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La Quinta
Injured seaman A TANKER, La Quinta, approaching Salcombe bound for Liverpool with a member of her crew seriously injured was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1157 on Saturday, 21 May. A...
Gentle giant
Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment
Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...
Category: Articles
"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!
ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.
Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...
Category: Poetry
Dinah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.10 on the night of the 26th of July, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling for help with a torch one mile to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was...
A Canoe
17th February. A canoe from Brandon had put out with three men on board to collect seaweed.
Later she was found drifting bottom up, but a prolonged search for the missing men was unsuccessful. The branch chairman and...
An Aeroplane (90)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. Later a body was washed ashore. A letter of thanks was received from Air Commodore of the R.A.F....