LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Star
IRVINE, AYESHIRE.—The schooner Guiding Star, of and from Kuncorn, for Irvine with salt, while endeavouring to enter the harbour, stranded on the bar, in a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea on the 1st November. The Life-boat Bwsbie put off to...
Reedbird
At 3 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, news was received that the yacht Reedbird was in distress one mile west of the Bar lightvessel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at 3.8 and proceeded in a south south easterly...
Mrs P Hamley-Rowan
Mrs P. Hamley-Rowan, president of East Sheen and Barnes branch since 1982 after serving as honorary secretary from 1939 to 1982. Mrs Hamley-Rowan was awarded a record of thanks in 1951, the gold badge in 1960, a bar to her gold badge in 1971...
Category: Obituaries
Maria, of Milford
On the 9th May the schooner Maria, " of Milford, ran on the bar at the mouth of the Boyne during a heavy gale from E.S.E. The Drogheda life-boat was quickly launched, and after one fruitless attempt succeeded in taking off her crew of 3...
The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
Notre-Dame de la Sallete
Dover, Kent. At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Boulogne that the trawler Notre-Dame de la Sallete of Boulogne was on the Sandettie bank with her trawl nets...
The Fleetwood M.V. Eleanora
FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.
on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch...
The Barges Mary Ann and Edith
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 2nd March the Coxswain received a telegram from Shoebury that a bargehad foundered. As a whole southerly gale was blowing, and a rough sea running, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 proceeded to her...
Twelfth Rnli Lottery Winners
Twelfth RNLI lottery winners BRUCE PARKER, a regular presenter of BBC South Today, came to Poole headquarters on April 30 to make the draw for the RNLl's twelfth national lottery. A Channel Islander who grew up on the Isle of Wight,...
Category: Articles
The Saint
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...