LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Outboard Motor Boat
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 6.55 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an outboard motor boat with a crew of three engaged in salvage operations on the wreck of the s.s. Nyon, which had...
Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence
Pensher
On the night of the 9th February, 1857, signal lights of distress were observed to seaward from Southwold in Suffolk. The life-boat immediately went off under sail, and found them to proceed from the brig Pensher, coal laden, which had...
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services (From Page 8)
Lifeboat Services (from page 8) At 2248, seeing the boat pass through the foul area, Coxswain Bowry took Gertrude on to the sand in breaking seas 7 cables from the casualty's position. The wind was now north east force 6 with rough seas...
Category: Services
March (1)
MARCH MEETING BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 3rd of February, 1945, an object was seen by the coastguard, about three-quarters of a mile off shore. The weather was fine, with a south-west wind ; the sea was calm. The...
Category: Services
A Vessel (15)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Farthings
As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...
Category: Donations
Aighai and Mistley
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....
Emulate
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a...