LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radio Caroline
At 5.34 p.m. on 26th May, 1967, it was learned that Deal coastguard had intercepted a call from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline asking for assistance to bring ashore a crew member with a badly burned arm. The life-boat Cecil...
A Small Vessel
NOVEMBER 17TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was making signals of distress off Blackwood Point, Brook. A fresh south-west gale was blowing, with heavy squalls and a heavy...
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1856
Dec. 18.—The schooner Ayenoria, of Bideford, and the schooner Alexandre, of Havre* were wrecked during a gale of wind near Tenby. Lieut. JESSE, R.N., chief officer of the Coastguard Station, and a crew of 11 men, put off in the Tenby...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY. — The locality of Dundrum Bay, on the east coast of Ireland, has, during the last three or four years, been the site of numerous wrecks, lying as it does at the entrance of the channel between the Isle of Man and the...
Category: Articles
Mr. Henry Watson, J.P., of Anstruther
MB. HENRY WATSON, J.P., of Anstru- ther, Fifeshire, died on 12th August, less than a month after he had resigned, on account of ill-health, his position of Joint Honorary Secretary of the Station which he had held with his partner of the...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.0 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1952, a man walked into the Dunmore life-boat station. He was a member of the crew of a small motor boat which had sprung a leak and sunk off Creadon Head. After...
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
George Champion
Exmouth, Devon. At 7.25 on the evening of the 7th October, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed by the port medical officer that a member of the crew of the Liberian tanker George Champion had severe cuts in an arm and needed...
Our Energetic Mr. Hawkes
No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr.
A. W. Hawkes, who is an energetic member of the Ipswich branch, can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any fund-raising scheme....
Category: Donations