LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (4)
Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...
Lady Jane and Fury
Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.4 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that the motor yacht Lady Jane had broken down one mile east of the pier and was signalling for help. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 1.14...
Stephens, Lady Jane and Queen Mab
MOTOR BOATS IN TROUBLE At 11.55 a-m- on 26th September, 1965, the east pier watchman fired maroons when he saw the motor boat Champion, which was towing the motor boat Stephens, foul the east pier throwing two men overboard. The life-boat...
Moss Rose (2)
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m. on 27th November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Moss Rose was at sea in weather that was likely to deteriorate and that he wished to go to the landing to...
Hille Oldendorff
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 11.20 a.m. on 30th March, 1966, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hille Oldendorff, of Lubeck, which was about nine miles north west of the Longships lighthouse,...
Lighthouse Mission
FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.
Category: Services
Skim
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Electronic Eyes and Ears Reviewed by Cdr Ken Wollan
Further developments in the Communications and Navigational Aids of a Modern Lifeboat By Cdr KEN WOLLAN QBE RN Staff Officer (Communications) RNLI MY PREDECESSOR, Lieutenant Ernest Gough, wrote an excellent article which appeared in the...
Category: Articles
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NOVEMBER 13TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.15 in the morning it was learned from the local doctor that a woman suffering from severe gastric troublemust be taken at once to hospital. As no steamer would run for two days...
H.M. Destroyer Whitshed
JUNE 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.20 in the morning the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asked for the services of the lifeboat to land an injured man from a destroyer coming into the roads, and at 7.40 A.M....