LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Note
After the Annual Report was completed, Colonel Sir FiTzRoY CLAYTON, who had taken an active p;trt in its preparation, was seized with sudden illness, and, to the deep regret of his colleagues, he has now resigned the Chairmanship of the...
Category: Committee
Gifts from Crews
ON 26th October last, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat rescued the crew of six of the German schooner Kate Runne, and also helped to save the vessel. The Crew has given the Institution a donation of £8 18s. 1(M. out of the salvage...
Category: Donations
Capella
SKIPPER'S BROKEN ARM Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about two miles east- north-east of Queen's Pier, and the motor life-boat Lady...
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Penlee, Cornwall. — Owing to the prolonged bad weather at the end of January and the beginning of February, it had been impossible to relieve the keepers of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, and the relief was so long overdue that they had run very...
From Navy, Army and Air Force
IN 1938, in response to the Institution's appeals, the Navy contributed £343, the Army, £412, and the Air Force £303. This year the Navy, to which the appeal is made at the beginning of "the year, has contributed...
Category: Donations
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the St. John Ambulance Brigade rang up to say that their motor boat Flying Christine was going to the help of two people marooned on a rock in Moulin Huet Bay and...
Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.5 on the morning of the llth of October, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Enterprize II was at sea in bad weather. Conditions at the outer harbour bar were dangerous, and the No. 1...
Marylda, Ciris and Chinta
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 30th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Nab pilot cutter had reported that a yacht needed help three miles north-north-east of Nab Tower. The...
Picton Castle
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—About midnight on the 29th of November, 1954, the steam trawler Picton Castle, of Swan- sea, with a crew of ten, entered Balti- more harbour to shelter from a south- easterly gale. The gale veered to the north-north-west...
Molin
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.25 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Molin, anchored in St. Ives Bay, was making distress signals. At 5.50 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...