LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Free Lance
JUNE 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
About 10.40 at night it was reported that the naval cadet boat Free Lance (a converted life-boat) was dragging her anchors north of New Brighton pier. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...
Life-Boat Broadcasting. Appeals In Ireland and Wales
DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
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Dear Reader
How confident are you in the water? Perhaps you are practically a fish, slipping into the surf with ease – or do you prefer to cling to the support of terra firma?
If you’re not an experienced sea user, our feature on page...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
Category: Committee
The Five Masted Schooner Helen W. Martin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th November a telephone message was received, stating that a large vessel had struck a mine and was at anchor about three miles off Orfordness. As the amount of damage was unknown and the sea was rough, the No. 1 Life-...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1959, a local farmer told the honorary secretary that a bullock had fallen over a cliff east of Sheep Island and asked for assis- tance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and...
The Indian-Registered Freighter Vishva Parag
You can't park that 'ere...
The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag...
The Spanish Longliner Xisti
Arun at sea for nine hours in winds gusting to lOOmph The Arun class lifeboat City of Bradford, at Ballyglass during the new station's twelve-month evaluation period, carried out a long and arduous service on 11 February which earned the...
Cleevely
Margate, Kent. — At 3.24 in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had anchored three hundred yards off Reculver near the Black Rock, but that she had not made any distress signals. A motor boat...
Norian
Plymouth, Devon - At 7.43 p.m. on 27th September, 1966, news was received that the yacht Norian had broken down in heavy seas twenty two miles south south east of Eddystone, and was asking for the assistance of a tug and a life-boat. The...