LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sea Cadet Naval Whaler
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was...
Tom Paul
Workington, Cumberland. At 4.30 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed by a pilot that the pilot boat had not returned to harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 8.30 in a...
Two New Vice-Presidents
LORD SEMPILL and the Marquess Camden have been elected vice-presidents of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Lord Sempill has served on the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1927 and the Marquess...
Category: Committee
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...
Penboch
On the evening of the 3rd of July, 1955, the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat rescued five men from the yacht Penboch, which had gone aground two miles from Southport pier. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Joseph...
Prins Bernhard
Dover, Kent.—At 11.58 on the night of the 30th of May, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard passed on a report from the North Foreland radio station that the motor vessel Prins Bernhard, of Gro- ningen, had been in collision five miles south of...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...
Victoire Roger
DETAILS LATER Sennen Cove, Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched on 24th March, 1964, to help the Belgian trawler Victoire Roger. A full account of the service will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Chairman's Name
Major K. G. Groves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, was inadvertently described as Major Graves in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT and apologies are expressed for this error. Major Groves was awarded the...
Category: Awards
Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...