LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cap-Lizard
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 6.48 a.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yacht was firing red flares about two miles south south west of the Lizard West coastguard's look-out....
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CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...
Purr Purr
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
The S.S. White Toft
APRIL 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles to the south of Whitby. There was a dense fog, with a light S.E. wind and a strong ground swell....
Extraordinary People
Each year,thousands of remarkable people provide voluntary donations that enable theRNLIto carry out its work.Many have no direct connection with the sea or maritimehistory,but simply have responded to our call and the bravery of our...
Category: Articles
Presentation at Westminster Hospital
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its Gold Brooch to Miss H. Denham, who for many years has been in the Incurable Ward at Westminster Hospital; and during the past seven years has collected there for the Life-boat Service nearly...
Category: Awards
A Touching Tribute
THE Institution has just received a most touching proof of devotion to the Life-boat Cause in the gift of two beautifully-dressed dolls, accompanied by the following note :— " To the Life-Boat Society.
"Miss finds...
Category: Donations
Nor Nor
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—During a strong W.S.W. gale, with a heavy sea, on the afternoon of the 9th January, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Nor Nor, belonging to St.
Mary's, was about two hundred...
Day Dream and The Raider
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
The S.S. New Verdun
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At about 6 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel in distress and burning flares N.E. of House Sand Fort. She was the s.s. New Verdun,of Plymouth, bound from Middlesbrough for Portsmouth...