LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Naess Tern
MAN HAD DIED At 8.16 p.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Tern of Panama was making for St. Ives Bay with a sick man aboard. The lifeboat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man-At 6.20 p.m. on i6th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares and a signal fire had been sighted on the north end of the Calf of Man. There was a strong easterly wind with a moderate...
William Harvey
Tractor service THE HONORARY SECRETARY of St Ives lifeboat station was informed at 1025 on Monday November 19, 1979, that the fishing boat William Harvey had a man on board with a badly injured finger. At first it was thought that the...
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last March Hayling Island station branched raised £1,008 with a ball Sinah Warren in aid of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal which was well supported by Islanders, by members of local sailing clubs and by members of neighbouring...
Category: Donations
SPECIAL DELIVERY
SUNK BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
I thought it worth updating readers to let them know that, while many RNLI lifeboats have been lost when their service to the RNLI finished, the former Cardigan...
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The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
News from the Branches
1st October to 31st December.
Greater London.
BARNES (SURREY).—Concert.
BERMONDSEY.—Concert.
CLAPHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing...
Category: Branches
Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the llth March, about twenty of the Staithes fishing-cobles proceeded to sea.
The weather then was fine, but there was a strong...
Charles Francis
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The ketch Charles Francis of and for Plymouth from Newport, Mon., with a cargo of coal, in taking the harbour too early on the tide on the evening of the 14th January, ran ashore on the Doombar Sand. The wind was blowing...