LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (33)
JULY 25TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. A steamer in a convoy was sinking as the result of enemy action, but there was no one on board. The life-boat remained by until she sank, and then found that the crew had been rescued by another vessel. -...
Life-Boat Services
ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...
Category: Services
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
On Station: Delivery and Naming of Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline By Peter Holness Membership Secretary
SHORELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED one of the most exciting periods in its history, for late last summer the first lifeboat to be funded by Shoreline members made her delivery trip to her station, Blyth, on the north-east coast of England, and on...
Category: Inaugurations
Scottish Fishermen Return Rewards
Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHARLES G-. TURNEB, G.B., Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had been no...
Category: Meetings
Ofelia
CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island....
Glad Tidings
MARCH 19TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND.
NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched at 2.20 P.M. as news had come that the engine of the local motor fishing boat Glad Tidings had broken down. A light S.E. breeze was...
Bev
Ramsgale, Kent. — At 6.39 in the evening, on the 14th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was making heavy weather half a mile off Dumpton Gap. At 6.45 the life- boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Golden Lily, of Swansea
APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.
A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched...