LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stepney
At 8 A.M. on the 16th February the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Palling coastguard station.
The tide was then half flood, and there was a slight swell. A moderate...
Mary Anne
Swanage, Dorset. At 12.44 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a two-masted fishing vessel, Mary Anne, had hoisted a distress signal east of Durlston Head.
Her...
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At 3.20 p.m. on 28th October, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat for a patient on Inishere Island who needed hospital treatment.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompsonleft her moorings at 3.45. The...
Record of the Branches: 1926—1927. The 20 Branches With the Highest Collection
The 20 Branches with the highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending September 30th,...
Category: Branches
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Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 7.15 on the evening of the llth of May, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say a message had been received from Ailsa Craig that the wife of one of the workers there was ill and required immediate attention. Owing to the...
Sabine
The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
Sirdar
At 5.45 A.M. on the 2nd February, Coxswain John Swan was called out by the Coast-guard as a vessel was burning flares as a signal of distress. He at once assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell, which proceeded to the New-...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 2nd March only one fishing boat—• the Provider—took the risk of going to sea, as the weather was bad and a heavy sea was breaking a long way outside the harbour entrance. It was decided to send the motor...
Floral Queen and Royal Empire
ON THE WHITBY BAR AGAIN Whitby. Yorkshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1947, a small motor coble was seen approaching.
The tide was one hour before low water and there was broken water for three hundred yards...
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the morning of the 14th June, 1961, there was a heavy swell, which was growing steadily worse. Six local fishing boats were at sea, and it was decided that the life-boat should be...