LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fiasco
Ramsgate, Kent. The East Pier watchman notified the honorary secretary at 12.45 P-m- on 20th May, 1965, that a small boat was in difficulties beyond the No. 3 buoy. At 12.55 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station,...
The Margate Life-Boat Saves a French Trawler
AT 3.50 early on the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the coast- guard rang up to say that the police had reported that the trawler Notre Dame de la Mer, of Boulogne, had run on to the rocks on Foreness Point about one and a half miles...
Category: Services
Protect Your Car In Stormy Weather
THE Prince of Wales, President of the Institution, the Duke of York, Prince Henry, Prince George, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Princess Victoria, have all accepted for use on. their cars...
Category: Articles
Regalia, of Whitby
On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were ob- served on the North Gare Sand, at the en- trance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and taken to the spot;...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 46, 59, and 65, the following launches on service were made during the months of September to November, 1966, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Ada
A. severe gale from the S. with, a very heavy sea was experienced on the 13th October. At about 7 P.M. signals of distress were observed in the direction of the Scroby Sand. No steam-tug was available, and, in the opinion of many of those...
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Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.30 on the morning of the 14th October, 1961, the Blyth police informed the honorary secretary that a body had been seen floating in Colleywell Bay, and that as it was nearly low water no small boat could put out...
Volontaire
The French schooner Volontaire anchored in Pol- kerris Bay on the 30th May during a strong S.W. gale and very heavy sea, and the Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney, when returning from another vessel, offered her assistance, as it...
Gala Performance
A Royal gala performance of the musi- cal version of The Admirable Crichton with Kenneth More and Millicent Martin will be held in aid of the In- stitution at a London West End theatre, on lyth December.
Seats will be...
Category: Donations
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