LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.
and S....
Category: Advertisement
Dinghies and Viveuse
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...
Ann Mitchell
— On the evening of the 22nd January, the schooner Ann Mitchell went ashore near Fleetwood.
The new life-boat, not long before placed there by the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was immediately launched, and taken in...
Volant and Queen
THURSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the W., veering to N.E., between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 21st March, the schooners Volant, of Wick, and Queen, of Inverness, which were both lying far out in the roadstead,...
Mizpah and Ocean Gift
On the 17th November the motor fishing boat Mizpah, of Newhaven, which was fishing off the Seven Sisters, got into difficulties through the failure of her engine. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
B.P.Manager and Scarcity
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from an unknown vessel, stating : " Collision one mile Rough Tower." As...
Albion and Esther
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a rough sea and squally weather, on the 3rd August, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Albion, of and from Buncorn, for the Yealm river,...
Hollyhow and Harp
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat...
Calendars and Cards
The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
Category: Advertisement
Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...