LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (3)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Seeker, Silver Stream and New Venture
Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 galeCoxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following the rescue of three men from two fishing vessels...
Yacht Haidee
LLANDUDNO.—At about 2.40 P.M. on the 7th September, the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched to the assistance of the cutter yacht Haidee, of Liverpool, which had shown a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a strong...
The Institution and Ship Owners. A Comparison Between Life-Boat Services and Contributions
A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIFE-BOAT SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I AM publishing here a list of the ships to the assistance of which the Life-boats have...
Category: Articles
True Vine, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens...
Niblick
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...
Category: Inaugurations
The Girvan Pleasure Motor Boat Carrick Lass
Girvan, Ayrshire.—On the evening of the 24th June news was received that the Girvan pleasure motor boat Carrick Lass had run ashore about half a mile .
north of Girvan harbour in a thick mist. The sea was smooth and there...
Alf Everard and the S.S. Sir Alexander Kennedy
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.39 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that another steamer had collided with the motor vessel Alf Everard, of London, off Sea Reach. At 6.55...