LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.—The crew of the Life-boat placed here by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION not being satisfied with their boat, and having expressed a strong desire that they might be furnished with another one, the Institution has...
Category: Articles
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
Sir Charles Macara, Bt., of Manchester
SIR Charles Macara, Bt., of Manchester, for many years one of the most prominent figures in the cotton industry, who died on 2nd January last, nine days before his eighty-fourth birthday, will always be honourably and gratefully remembered...
Category: Obituaries
Cruiser and Crete Avon (1)
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
Brothers In IRB Save Three
Two brothers who manned the Exmouth inshore rescue boat and who were washed overboard in an attempted rescue, have each been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum. They are Mr. Peter Rowsell, the helmsman, and Mr. Brian...
Category: Services
Two Fine Services
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Life- boat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Category: Services
Samsal (1)
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
Naming Ceremonies
Two naming ceremonies in one day were carried out by H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on Thursday, 8th July, 1965.
Arriving by a helicopter of the Queen's Flight at Cromer and landing on the playing field of...
Category: Inaugurations
Two French Vessels -Augustine & La Jeune Erneste
On the 15th December, during a heavy S.S.E. gale, two French vessels, mistaking this harbour for that of Portsmouth, struck on the sands at East [ Looe and West Looe respectively. The ' Manley Wood life-boat was soon launched...
Bacchus
MEVASISSBT, OOBHWAM,.—On the 1st September the smaek Bacchus, of Nantes, which had been towed from Buthleven to Charlestown in ballast, and had anchored in Oharlestown Bay, was in great danger owing to the heavy gale which had sprung up from...