LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire. On the 2nd of November, 1960, the fishing coble Margaret and James was at sea in a south-south-westerly gale. The weather was cloudy with fierce squalls, and the sea was rough. As the weather was be- coming worse it was...
Kylin
Wells, Norfolk - On ifth September, 1966, the Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat rescued a man and his dog from the yacht Kylin. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
Firms and Their Products
• The Hovercat Mk. 2 multipurpose amphibious hovercraft (Hovermarine Transport Ltd., Hazel Wharf, Hazel Road, Woolston, Southampton) has a wide range of roles.
The Hovercat depicted above is fitted out for casualty...
Category: Articles
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...
Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
Category: Articles
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
Earnest and Dove
At 9.40 A.M.
on the 21st April it was reported that a shrimp boat was dismasted in the roads and in distress. As it was blowing a moderate gale from S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark, Lane was launched, and...
Vellums for Sunderland and Whitehaven
A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.
Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...
Category: Awards
Goosander and Barbar
Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...