LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Primula
Signals of dis- tress were seen shortly after 7 P.M. on the 19th October from the Barber Sands, and in response the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched. When near the sands the brigantine Primula of Istorp, was seen with heavy seas break...
Fishing Boats (1)
MONTROSE.—The morning of the 25th February was comparatively fine, with a moderate breeze blowing from S.S.W., and the fishing-boats went to sea. At about 10 o'clock the wind veered to S.S.E. and commenced to blow very strongly, and a...
Snowdon
During a whole W.S.W. gale on the night of the 20th February signals of distress were observed fr«m a vessel in.
the St. Tudwell's Eoads. Throughout the day it had been seen that the vessels there had been having...
A Small Open Boat
Walmer, Kent.—At 1 P.M. on the 29th July, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong...
A Latvian Award to Scotland
Mr. Charles Zarine, the Latvian Minister in London, presenting to Coxswain Peter MacPhee, of Portaskaig, the decoration of the Latvian Order of the Three Stars. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Essay Competition
Colonel] ih; Master! of Scmpill presenting the Challenge Shields for Greater London and the South East of England. On the Master of SempiU's left is the Mayor of Westminsten. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kathleen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1948, during a dense fog, the coast- guard rang up to say that the skipper of a motor boat had reported passing the local fishing vessel Kathleen near Longnose Buoy and that...
Annual General Meeting 1966
The next annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 20th April, 1966..
Category: Meetings
Duke of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey-At io.2ia.m. on 8th March, 1966, the duty harbour officer received a Mayday message via Jersey radio from the tug Duke of Normandy saying that she had struck a rock near Les Vascelius on the Les Minquiers reef. The...
Shelmelier
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.29 a.m.
on i8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Kilkenny had sighted red flares about 10 miles north-west of Skerries lighthouse. There was a gale from...