LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessie
POOLE, DOHSET.—While a fresh wind was blowing from E.S.E. on the 5th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Sandbanks stating that a vessel was on the Hook Sand and burning flares. The Lifeboat City Masonic Club...
Hilda and Royal Charter
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.40 A.M. on the 28th February, as it had been reported that the local motor fishing coble Hilda was at sea, and though the breeze was light there was a very rough...
A Motor Rescue Dinghy
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...
Fishing Boats (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. —• During the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, as, the weather was getting bad, anxiety was felt for the safety of three local fishing boats which were returning from the whelk grounds, and just after noon the motor...
Bazar
MONTROSE.—During a moderate breeze from the E.S.E. on the 12th January, the brig Bazar, of Oscarshamn, laden with pit props for the Tyne, was seen off Montrose, steering northwards, trying to clear the land, but evidently becoming embayed....
Rnll Kensington Branch
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Category: Advertisement
R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster
It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.
The Chairman observed that it had been well...
Category: Meetings
Dragon
DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.
The wind...
Runa (1)
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...