LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
District Inspectors
Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....
Category: Articles
Eglantine, of Whitby
On the 10th Oct., the large Life-boat on this station put off, in reply to signals of distress, during a heavy gale from the S.S.W., and found the brig Eglantine, of Whitby, in a disabled state near the Cockle Lightship. She had broken from...
An Aeroplane (54)
JUNE 10TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew were drowned before the life-boat and a motor launch could reach the spot. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d.
Velocity, Frier and Bonne Mere
SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...
Category: Articles
Angus Rose and Mizpah
Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
Artic Stream
— During a terrific S.E. gale on the 22nd February, the ship Arctic Stream, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked between Cresswell and New- biggin. She was bound at the time from Leith to the Tyne in ballast. The Life-boats Ada Lewis, of...
Rasmus
Three snatched to safety in atrocious weather conditions Coxswain Ron Cannon of Ramsgate lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for bravery, with Emergency Mechanic Timothy Hurst and Crew Member Lance Oram receiving Thanks on...
Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations