LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help could be heard from the wreck-marker buoy in Ox- wich Bay. At 11.5 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
The Motor Drifter Yankee Girl
JAN. 2ND. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
At 8 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The S.S. Innisfallen...
£207 By Photography
ADMIRAL STUART NICHOLSON, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., who has been Honorary Secretary of the Bude Branch since 1921, and was presented last year with the Gold Badge, has contributed £207 to the funds of the Branch by photography, principally by...
Category: Donations
Capricornus
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.
on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.
A moderate northerly breeze...
A Small Yacht
JUNE 30TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 1.40 in the morning a telephone message came from the relatives of three young men who had left Keyhaven during the afternoon for a trip in a small yacht and had not returned. The motor life-boat...
London Resolution
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.10 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick seaman aboard the tanker London Resolution of London. The tanker was expected to reach a position five miles south of...
Andania
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Andania would arrive off Penzance at 5 p.m. bearing a sick man on board who needed hospital...
Nancy
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.5 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, news was received that the engine of the pilot launch Nancy had broken down in a position between the North East and Dee buoys while taking a pilot out to a ship. The life-boat Anthony...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
Clarinda of Sunderland
The Birmingham. No. \ life-boat at Sutton saved 7 men from the ship Clarinda, of Snnderland, which had stranded off In- goldsmill.