LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches (2)
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.
on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...
Category: Services
Seaside singing
The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
Category: Articles
Kings Star
Stromness, Orkneys - At n.i a.m.
on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Kings Star of Allesumd was ashore on the north shoal.
The life-boat...
Services Rendered By Motor Fishing-Boats Subsidised By the Institution In 1918
Lives 1918. saved, w Jan. 29. S.S. Butetown, of London. Mevagissey Motor Fishing-boat saved ... 21 w Feb. 4. A Seaplane. Dungeness Motor Fishing-boat saved 2 w ,, 11. S.S. Baku Standard. Gourdon Motor Fishing-boat...
Category: Services
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
Red Army Day.
Life-boatmen took part in the meetings, on 2oth and 2ist February, celebrating the 25th birthday of the Red Army. Life-boatmen from Margate and Southend-on-Sea were at the chief celebration in the Albert Hall, London; men from Newhaven and-...
Category: Articles
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
Category: Articles
Valldemosa (1)
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN.—At daybreak on the 8th August, the Life-boat W. Hopkinson of Brigliouse was launched in order to be in readiness to assist any fishing boats that might be seeking the shelter of the harbour.
During the night a...
H.M.S. Witherington
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.30 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...