LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Cargo Vessel Stelianos
GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.
The...
David Jolly (Tiller Master)
ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE OSTAR 1976 Single handed transatlantic race Nine chose Tiller Masters — Four finished in first eight 1 SOUR AMD WIND BATTERY CHARGERS AVAILABLE DAVID JOLLY 3 Little...
Category: Advertisement
Ex-Coxswain Sydney J. Harris, of Gorleston
Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...
Category: Obituaries
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 5.—The 35 Feet 6 Inches Liverpool Type
As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
Category: Articles
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
Finnkraft
AID FOR FINNS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At i.io p.m. on ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fimkraft of Helsinki, then five miles north-west of Bardsey Island, had an injured man on...
Baltic Lily (1)
Whitstable, Kent. At 5 p.m. on ist October, 1964, the police informed the honorary secretary that the wife of the owner of the cabin cruiser Baltic Lily was concerned about the safety of her husband and the vessel. The Baltic Lily was...
None (3)
— 3rd August. Shouts from one boat to another for a tow were mistaken on shore as calls for help.—Rewards, £2 Os. 6d..
A Naval Trawler (1)
OCTOBER 6TH. - FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE. A naval trawler which was leaking had been reported to be making for Fraserburgh, but she made for Aberdeen instead. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
The S.S. Salatis
— Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 2nd February a telephone message was received from the Coastguard at Sizewell, stating that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, and making signals for assistance. The No. 2 Lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...