LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Retirement
Mrs. H. D. Ford, of Margate, who was responsible for the formation of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild in 1957, and held the office of honorary secretary, retired this year.
During her term of office she was awarded...
Category: Articles
Loss of Thurso Life-Boat and Boathouse
ON the morning of Monday, the 10th of December, 1956, the Thurso life- boat, Dunnet Head (Civil Service No.
31) and the life-boathouse were totally destroyed by fire. The fire was first noticed shortly after seven...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Flying Enterprise
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy and Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire. Four seine net fishing boats—Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crest—were overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso on the 9th January, 1939. The motor...
H.M. Rescue Tug Adept
MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...
Gallant and Successful Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew By a Student
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
Category: Articles
Safety Week
THE annual " Safety Week," organized by the National Safety Week Council, ou which the Institution is represented, is not being held this year at the same time throughout the country. Instead of this, local " Safety Weeks...
Category: Articles
John Bull, of Yarmouth
On the 17th February, the smack John Bull, of Yarmouth, parted from her anchors, and went ashore on the beach at that place.
The smaller Yarmouth life-boat was soon launched, and proceeded to her through a heavy surf....
Pontfield
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.28 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported a vessel awash about five miles N.N.E. from Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.5. A strong N.E. wind...
Ceremonies
Relief fleet D class A new D class lifeboat provided by the patrons of the Fox & Hounds public house in Surbiton was handed over to the RNLI in Poole on 4 February 1989.
Some of the patrons were present when Mr Vic...
Category: Inaugurations