LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fisherman's Aneroid Barometer
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has decided to supply Owners or Masters of Fishing Vessels with an Aneroid Baro- meter of a superior and reliable character, at a small cost, which must make this useful instrument a welcome addition to...
Category: Articles
Services of French Life-Boats
WE have much pleasure in extracting from the French Life-boat Journal the following interesting account of services performed by the life-boats of the " Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages," during the first quarter of the...
Category: Services
The S.S. Brinkburn
The S.S. Brinkburn; of London, with twenty- two men on board, whilst bound from Antwerp to Cardiff in ballast on the 24th February, stranded on the Good- win Sands near the S.E. buoy. The weather at the time was threatening, and the Charles...
Karina II
Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze...
Francis Drake
Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low...
A Dinghy and Two Yachts (1)
RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
A New Assistant Secretary
MR. R. C. BAVERSTOCK, the Assistant Secretary and Establishment Officer, has retired after forty-four years in the service of the Institution. He is succeeded by Mr. S. M. Whorlow.
Mr. Baverstock was appointed Assistant...
Category: Committee
Sarah Ross
AUG. 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the relatives of two men on board the motor fishing boat Sarah Ross, of Peterhead, that they were overdue. A light N.W. breeze was blowing,...
June Rose.
PROPELLER FOULED Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—-At 9.40 in the evening of the llth of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a seine-net fishing boat had fouled her propeller and was signalling for help half a mile off Cruden Bay. The...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...