LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Bronze Medal Service at St. Mary's, Scillies
A MESSAGE was received at St. Mary's, Scillies, through the St. Ives coast- guard, shortly after half-past one in the afternoon of 28th November, that the schooner Mynonie R. Kirby, of London, bound for the South Seas, was drifting...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Selskar and S.S. Nordic
Walmer, Kent—On the night of the 31st of March, 1949, the S.S. Selskar, of Newcastle, and the S.S. Nordic, of Stockholm, were in collision near the South Falls Buoy, and the Ramsgate life-boat was launched, but her services were not needed...
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Harwich: When on July 9 the Ex Revenue Cutter L'Atalanta Went Aground on Cork Sands With Six People on Board the Water Was Too Shallow for Harwich's 44' Waven
Harwich: When, on July 9, the ex revenue cutter L'Atalanta went aground on Cork Sands, with six people on board, the water was too shallow for Harwich's 44' Waveney lifeboat Margaret Graham to approach. Two crew members ran a tow... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Naming Ceremony of the Arun Class Duke Ofathollal Dundee on 12 May
The naming ceremony of the Arun class Duke ofAthollal Dundee on 12 May was memorable in many ways. Named in honour of The Duke of Atholl who had been the Institution's chairman for a decade up to 1989 she is also the last Arun class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St Lawrence of Liverpool
On the 20th September in- telligence was brought to Southport that a vessel was on shore on the Salthouse Bank,at the entrance to the River Ribble. The life- boat was at once launched, and in 2i hours reached the wreck, which was found to be...
Gwylan
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1953, the life-boat Aguila Wren was launched for a routine exercise. She pa- trolled the area in which some dinghies were sailing in a local regatta, and about four...
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