LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Expedite
A fine service was performed by the Laetitia, the Life-boat stationed here, on the 13th November. the morning of that day she went off to tow of the steam-tug Bairibow to a Norwegian vessel named Expedite, belong- Iing to Drobeck, which had...
An Aeroplane (35)
NOV. 25TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea eleven miles south by east of Shoreham.
The life-boat arrived to find several seaplanes also searching, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6...
Life-Boat Days In 1930. 1,000 Per Cent Profit
FOE many years the Life-boat Day has been one of the Institution's most successful forms of appeal. It still remains so, in spite of the criticisms made in the Press of this form of appeal on account of the very large number of charities...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Anne and Cymba, of Kilmore Quay
OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING September and October the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers, in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : —• To THOMAS E. PURDY, Esq., Honorary...
Category: Awards
Cestrian, of Chester
On the 31st of August, the schooner Cestrian, of Chester, in running for Newhaven harbour, grounded on the bar, when the Institution's life-boat stationed there was launched, and proceeded to her aid. An attempt was at first made to save...
Afon Gwili
DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.40 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Brake Sands and asked that the life-boat should be launched immediately.
A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
The Danish Liquified Gas Carrier Regitze Tholstrup
Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough...
Dunmail, of Liverpool
On the 10th Aug. the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur, in a strong wind and heavy sea, saved 10 men from the ship Dunmail, of Liverpool, I which was wrecked on the Bar of the ' Mersey..
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...