LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 4 p.m. on 5th September, 1968, the coastguard reported that a motor boat with two people on board was in difficulties in Maidens bay. Five minutes later the life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) slipped her...
Besty Ann, of Port Gordon
On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B.,...
Saga
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the afternoon of the 13th February, while a moderate gale from the N.E. was blowing and the sea was rough, a vessel was seen ashore on the Sunk Sand. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.35, and found that the...
Help to the Fighting Services.
The year was notable for the help which the life-boat service, while following its single aim of saving life, was able to give to the fighting services at Dunkirk and in the waters round our coasts.
Nineteen life-boats took...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (1)
BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. On the 2nd January, 1939, the crew of four of the motor trawler Yankee Girl were rescued by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £2 10s., with £3 for loss of fishing, and 2s. 6d. for fuel used, together with a...
Category: Services
Jochelle
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the Barrow sands. At 11.40 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30) was...
Venus, Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea. The sea increased and at 10 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...
The Indian-Registered Freighter Vishva Parag
You can't park that 'ere...
The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag...
National Day of Prayer.
A hospital at Stranmillis, Belfast, the Garrison Church at Larkhill, Wiltshire, and churches in Cornwall, Northamptonshire, Lancashire and Gloucestershire, sent to the Life-boat Service the special collections which they nude on September...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies In 1964
PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the Institution's President, will name the new Llandudno life-boat on 15th May and the new St. David's life-boat on igth May. At the time of going to press dates for other cere- monies have not been...
Category: Inaugurations