LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A French Trawler (1)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Maggie Murray
At about 11.20 A.M. on the 1st January it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that a small ketch was at anchor close to Allonby Bay, and as the weather was squally, with every indication of a heavy gale approaching, she was kept under...
Eagle
During the evening of the 1st April the life-boat motor mechanic received a telephone message from the police and the coast- guard, reporting that six men were stranded on Burbo Bank. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The...
Hyacinth
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Ushant radio station broad- cast that the fishing boat Gordias had found the sailing yacht Hyacinth, of Washington, U.S.A., about twelve miles west-by-north...
Halmatic Ltd
Highly specialised Search & Rescue Craft from HALMATIC The Self-Righting 'Arun' 54' on trial Backed by over 20 years' experience in fibreglass boatbuilding, Halmatic are established leaders in the design and production of...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
Category: Advertisement
Lutha, of Leith
At daylight on the 27th De- cember the brigantine Lutha, of Leith, was observed off "Whitby with loss of masts and sails, and otherwise disabled, and with signals of distress in her rigging.
The Whitby No. 1 life-boat...
Kate
PLYMOUTH.—The barquentine Kate, of Greenock, laden with logwood from Laguna de Terminios to Plymouth for orders, parted her cables during a strong W. gale and a high sea on the morning of the 23rd March, and went ashore on the rocks in...
Committee of Management
FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.
Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.
Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B....
Category: Committee