LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunny Seas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.8. on the evening of the 27th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Sunny Seas needed help one mile west of Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 8.16. The sea...
Award to Master of Steamer
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Penguin
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a vessel was waving a red flag two miles east of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 in a calm sea....
Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1957, a message was received that alocal fishing coble was at sea in worsen- ing weather. The life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched at 10.50 in a moderate sea....
Overheard on a Bus
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals (From Page 102)
Central Appeals (from page 102) being December 31, 1974. In this way it is hoped to raise enough money to have a lifeboat 'owned' by the knitters.
A circular is available on the knit-in.
For those...
Category: Committee
Yacht Medea
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There...
Jenny
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 2 p.m. on 3ist August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Rillage point. The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 2.10. The tide was flooding. The life...
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 7.29 p.m. on 5th September, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was told by the police that a yacht had capsized in the Conway estuary. At 7.40 the IRB launched in a moderate to fresh north-westerly breeze and...