LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lebanese Vessel Kapitan Vanghelis
IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
Lifeboat People
AFTER THE SERVICE on December 1 of St Peter Port lifeboat to Natali, which transports Guernsey shellfish to Santander, the vessel's owners, Mariscos Del Cantabrico, entertained all members of the station's crew and their wives,...
Category: Articles
The New Sheerness Isle of Sheppey 44' Waveney Lifeboat Helen Turnbull Was Named on May 18 By Mrs R D Leigh-Pemberton Wife of the Vice Lord Lieutenant of Ke
The new Sheerness, Isle ofSheppey, 44' Waveney lifeboat Helen Turnbull was named on May 18 by Mrs R. D. Leigh-Pemberton, wife of the vice Lord Lieutenant of Kent.
A legacy from the estate of James Bissell Turnbull,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Montrose
THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of...
Category: Committee
New Chief Inspector Appointed
COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O.
D.S.C., R.N., has been appointed Chief Inspector of Life-boats to succeed Commander T. G. Michelmore, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
Commander Bennetts was in command of...
Category: Articles
Dimcyl (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.30 on the evening on the llth of August, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Dimcyl was flying a distress signal about two miles north of Lowestoft. She seemed to be trying to make harbour against a...
Twin
On the 4th October two men put out in the motor fishing boat Twin, of Sunderland. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The Twin ran out of petrol and got into difficulties. Her anchor was dropped, but it failed...
The S.S. Skandinavian
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
Finnkraft
AID FOR FINNS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At i.io p.m. on ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fimkraft of Helsinki, then five miles north-west of Bardsey Island, had an injured man on...
Baltic Lily (1)
Whitstable, Kent. At 5 p.m. on ist October, 1964, the police informed the honorary secretary that the wife of the owner of the cabin cruiser Baltic Lily was concerned about the safety of her husband and the vessel. The Baltic Lily was...