LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (4)
Life-boat 70-002, Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.9 p.m. on loth July, 1966, a local visitor informed the coxswain that there was a dinghy apparently in difficulties off the harbour. Using his binoculars the coxswain saw that the dinghy was...
Herald
Flares were observed by the Coastguard watchman at 3.30 A.M. on the llth February, from a vessel apparently ashore on the West Barnard Sands. There was a strong S.S.W. wind blowing, and a heavy sea was running, while the weather was bitterly...
Erratum
IN the March 1960 number of the Life-boat it was stated on page 381 that the bronze medal for gallantry had been awarded to Mr. Hugh Owen, of the Moelfre, Anglesey, crew. In fact, Mr.
Owen was awarded a second-service clasp...
Category: Awards
Indus and the Dock Board Hopper Mersey No. 24
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the port radar station that the M.V. Indus had collided with the Dock Board hopper...
Night Danger Signals
WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Four saved from capsized speedboat Three men and a woman were rescued by the Plymouth Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth, aided by two MOD police boats, on 1 January when their speedboat capsized in Bovisand Bay after being struck by a...
Cover Picture
Fog . . . one of the worst hazards for the seafarer. The prototype 47ft Tyne class lifeboat City of London underwent her slipway trials at Selsey lifeboat station in Sussex, and Selsey lifeboathouse and slipway can be seen looming in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at St. Ives
THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...
Category: Inaugurations
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Category: Advertisement
Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate
BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
Category: Obituaries