LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Members for R.N.L.I. Committee of Management
Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Committee
The Nigerian Fish-Factory Ship Azu
Lifeboat rescues 33 crew from grounded ship in gales and darkness A difficult service in very poor conditions in which 33 seamen were taken off grounded fish factory ship has led to Coxswain Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station...
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Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 6.15 on the evening of the 5th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Maughold Head and later asked for the life-boat. At 6.35 the life-boat Frank and...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At n.io a.m. on 30th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick boy on the isle of Colonsay. The life-boat Francis W. Wptherspoon of Paisley slipped her moorings at 11.35 in a fresh...
Prince
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 10.12 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht four miles south-south-west of Orford- ness was flying a distress signal. The life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.26 in a...
Alethea II
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of Harwich, was aground at the mouth of the River Aide. Her crew of three were able to walk ashore. Later she...
Precarious position
New Brighton’s B class lifeboat Charles Dibdin and hovercraft Hurley Spirit were called out on Friday 25 March when a yacht crewed by experienced local sailors got stuck in mud. The yacht was leaning...
Category: Articles
Rosa
The steam trawler Bosa, of Montrose, in attempt- ing to cross the bar at low water, on the morning of the 4th August, was struck by a heavy sea, and having taken a sheer, stranded on the Annat Bank. There was a very heavy cross sea at the...
The Gale of the 19th May, 1863
THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Sheringham Coxswain
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services