LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr S J Atkinson-Carter,
Mr S J Atkinson-Carter, Bishops Waltham branch press officer from 1980 to 1985. He was vice chairman from 1981 to 1985 and 1992 to 1996, chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 1988 to 1992 and box secretary and speaker from 1992 until his death. He...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
— The NATIOHAI, •ION has formed another Life-boat establishment on the coast of Essex, for the better protection of the shipping which crowds the channels lead- ing to the Thames. The Life-boat had only been placed on its station at...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Manolito
Penlee, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 13th of October, 1955, the Port Medical Officer reported that a man in the S.S. Manolito, of Costa Rica, had been injured. At 4.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched and went to Newlyn for a doctor...
RFD Company Ltd
Extensively used by the R.N.L.I.
for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting manyinexcessofthat number. Being inherently buoyant, it is virtually unsinkable...
Category: Advertisement
Jessie
St. AGNES, SCILLY.—While a strong breeze from the E.S.E. was blowing on the 28th February, the smack Jessie, of Plymouth, which had lost her main-boom, was seen running into a dangerous position and the Life-boat James and Caroline was...
White Heather
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the afternoon of the 31st October the owner of a motor yacht which was anchored east of Yarmouth pier hired two men in the motor launch White Heather to put him on board his yacht.
A strong north...
Eight Shillings to Mend a Life-Boat
THE honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Bridlington has had the fol- lowing letter : The Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Briglinton.
" DEAR SIR, " We have been leaning about...
Category: Donations
Fishing Boats
On the even- ing of the 12th September fourteen of the fishing-boats belonging to Whitby went out to fish. Later the wind fresh- ened considerably from N.N.E. and bad weather followed, causing them to make for port again. About midnight,...
The Sailing Ketch West Winds
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At twelve noon on the 23rd of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that the auxiliary sailing ketch West Winds, which had left Tenby bound for Gloucester, had not moved her position for several hours, and that her...
Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—Shortly be- fore 9 A.M. on the 25th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss in Sinclair Bay.
A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea...