LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ross
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 26th May the motor vessel Ross, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, bound from Glasgow to Liverpool, ran on the rocks on the north side of the Calf of Man. She had a crew of twenty-six, seven passengers,...
Thanks to Stavros
RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for...
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Les Deux Jeaunes
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1956the coastguard telephoned that a French trawler was burning flares a mile and a quarter south of Lowestoft harbour. The life-boat Greater Lon- don (Civil Service No. 3)...
Peganda
Dover, Kent.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 1st of August, 1949, a yacht was seen by the life-boat mechanic to have broken down outside the harbour, and at 8 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A moderate...
Tine Andersen of Hull
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.22 a.m.
on 8th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the drifter Tine Andersen of Hull, with one man on board, had dragged her anchor and was drifting on to a lee shore at...
Debbie G
OVERDUE MOTOR BOAT FOUND AT SEA Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the morning of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Polruan coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the owner of the motor boat Debbie G that she...
Around the Coast
SECOND OF THE STEEL HULLED 18 knot fast afloat Thames class lifeboats, Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, recently completed her first comparative trials with the prototype, 50-001, and with an Arun class boat, 52-02. Although only light to moderate...
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The S.S. Regency Belle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.14 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1953, during fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel was making signals on her siren south-east of Whitby Rock Buoy. At 12.29 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
A Vessel
INDIAN SEAMAN At 12.45 a-m- on ist November, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that an Indian seaman on board a vessel anchored near the Bar lightvessel was in urgent need of medical treatment. There was a smooth sea with very little wind...
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...