LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tafner
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1957, the motor mechanic and bowman reported to the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on North Rock. At four o'clock the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
Mr. Norman Clark Neill
Mr. Norman Clark Neill, who died in March, at the age of fifty-two, was appointed a member of the committee of management in November, 1933, and served on the boat committee and construction committee. He brought to the work of the...
Category: Obituaries
The Rohilla
The Henry Vernon, converted by Mr. G. A. Tawse, of Bosham, into a "motor yacht, and renamed after the wrecked hospital ship from which she rescued 50 lives on 1st November. 1914.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lulu
YACHT IN HEAVY WEATHER OFF NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 6.46 a.m.
on Monday the 26th August, 1963, the Needles coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht approximately one mile west of the Brook look-out...
Leila
CAUGHT IN HERRING NET Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.58 a.m. on nth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a mile and a half from Lowestoft coastguard lookout. There was a fresh...
Contest of Kent
Margate, Kent - At 6.46 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, it was learnt that red flares had been sighted. Thelife-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. It) was launched at 7.1 in a moderate north north easterly wind with a corresponding sea. The...
I.R.B. Services In Brief
Date 1964 October i October 3 October 4 October 5 October 8 October 10 October 17 Station Whitstable Whitstable Southwold West Mersea Mudeford Worthing Largs Casualty Cabin cruiser BALTIC LILY Capsized dinghy Capsized dinghy Flare Fishing...
Category: Services
Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
A Sailing Boat and a Rowing Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1956, the second coxswain reported that he had seen a sailing boat capsize about a mile and a half from Castle Point. The life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...