LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Disaster at Arbroath
EARLY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the wind shifted, and by 9.30 it was blowing...
Category: Services
Mount Ida and Vera Creina
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
Donna Maria
RAMSGATE.—On the 30th July, signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship.
The Vulcan steam-tug and Bradford No. 2 Life-boat were manned as quickly as possible,, and proceeded direct for a vessel which was observed ashore...
14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel
AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.
Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...
Category: Services
Diana (1)
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
Other Messages...
0 A year ago I said: 'Now we stand on the threshold of the 70's, which promise to be years of new development and greater challenges.' The first challenge was not long in coming, for on 21st January, 1970, the Fraserburgh...
Category: Articles
Ebro (1)
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...
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Sunbeam Chaser
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
Silver Jubilee Fleet Review
SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
Category: Articles