LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
Congo
On the 1st January, at aboitt 6 P.M., during a S.
wind and misty weather, the Cresswell fishermen observed signal rockets being sent up. Two of the men ran along the beach and found a steamer on the strand firing rockets...
The Ex-Fishing Boat Morag
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.14 on the morning of the 19th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seentwo to three miles off Lade. At 2.35 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched two hours after...
Kronsberg
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 6.10 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was burn- ing green flares two miles west-north- west of Lizard Head. The coastguard signalled the ship by morse, and in reply she asked...
A Motor Boat (1)
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was...
Charles Barrie
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone message that an aeroplane had been seen to fall into the water near No. 6 buoy, off Shanwell Sands. The motor life-boat John Ryburn was away...
Suzanne
FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah...
Fiasco
Ramsgate, Kent. The East Pier watchman notified the honorary secretary at 12.45 P-m- on 20th May, 1965, that a small boat was in difficulties beyond the No. 3 buoy. At 12.55 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station,...
Catherine Anne
Caister, Norfolk. At 7.55 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the mechanic told the coxswain that a small fishing boat was burning red flares. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at 8.10 in a fresh westerly breeze and moderate seas, two...
None (3)
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 7.5 p.m.
on I3th June, 1966, the doctor in Eday reported that he had a patient requiring hospital treatment. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings at 7.30 in a moderate easterly...