LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Panamanian Steamer
On the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat was called out to go to the help of a Panamanian steamer.
After a dangerous passage among rocks and in dense fog the life-boat...
Ais Giorgis
Humber, Yorkshire.—During a fog on the morning of the 3rd October the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported an unknown vessel ashore near Kilnsea beacon. She was the Greek steamer Ais Giorgis, of Piraeus, bound with a cargo...
A Fishing Dinghy
Walmer, Kent. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 25th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a fishing dinghy off the Goodwin Fork buoy were un- able to make headway and were drifting northwards on...
Mrs a Smart,
Mrs A Smart, Biddenden, Headcorn and district branch founder member and honorary secretary from 1985 until her death. She had worked for the RNLI for over 35 years in several branches in the following capacities: Crouch End branch LBWO/PRO...
Category: Obituaries
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of this ; truly national and useful Society was held j at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon ,' Street, on the 4th of June. In the un- ; avoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE ', OF MARLBOROUGH,...
Category: Meetings
A Fisherman's Tribute to the Life-Boats
Ox the 30th September the Teosmouth Cardwcll was quickly on the Move. They Motor Life-boat went to the help of a Manned the Boat Beautifull They went . ... , , . , i-i through the surf to the off side. They...
Category: Correspondence
Hundreds Of Fancy-Dressed Swimmers And Spectators Brave The Elements At Charmouth Beach Each Christmas
Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescued From Rocks
Two boaters stranded on a small pinnacle of rocks in choppy seas were glad to see Trearddur Bay’s B class lifeboat Dorothy Selina on 23 October.
Their boat had suffered engine failure, smashed against the rocks and...
Category: Articles
Dragon
LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS, and WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—Information wa received from Duncansby Head Light- house, through the Wick Coastguard, at about 2.30 A.M. on the 12th March, that a vessel was ashore at Duncansby Head.
A strong...
A Motor Barge
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—20th and 21st May. A search of the Buxey Sands for a vessel reported ashore. Nothing was found as the vessel, it was discovered later, was submerged. Going out again the life-boat learned that the vessel was a motor...