LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam-Launch
SIDMOUTH.—On the morning of the 23rd May H.M.S. Lively, with the DUKE and DUCHESS of EDINBURGH and suite on board, arrived off Sidmouth, and came into the bay, in order that his Royal Highness might land and inspect the Coastguard Station....
Correction
In the last edition of the Lifeboat in a news item titled Honours for RNLI people, we incorrectly stated that Bob Bulgin BEM had been involved with Port Isaac Lifeboat Station for 6 years.
It should have read 16 years – of...
Category: Articles
Audacity (1)
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
Three Examples of Practical Gratitude
ON 3rd October, 1923, in a whole N.N.W. gale with a terrific sea, the trawlers of Brixham, were in danger in the harbour from a steamer, the Tuscarora, of Sunderland, which had come into collision with another steamer, the Torvald, of Sweden...
Category: Articles
Volvo
LIFE.
When you open the door of a Volvo 460 Turbo, you'll notice the extra weight of the built-in crash-bar. It's there in all Volvo doors.
Sink back in your seat, secure in the knowledge that you...
Category: Advertisement
A Sailing Dinghy
Saved boat and three SHOREHAM HARBOUR DLA was informed by HM Coastguard at 1405 on Wednesday July 20, 1977, that a 14' sailing dinghy was half submerged just west of the harbour entrance; one of her crew of three could be seen in the...
Allantide
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Gal way Bay. At 1.30 on the morning of the 17th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler needed help ten miles south-west of North Aran light. The life-boat...
Fiducia
At 5.20 P.M.
on the 19th February, a schooner was observed aground on the Bell Buoy shoal. There was a moderate southerly gale at the time and the sea was heavy.
The Life-boat John Burch was therefore...
Yacht Alethea II
At 8.10 P.M. on the 30th August the coast- guard at Totland telephoned that a small yacht was burning red flares near Elbow Buoy. A fresh S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat...
Salvor
Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 12th February, 1938, the motor boat Salvor, of Ramsgate, with a crew of three, had gone out to the North Goodwin Lightvessel, to bring ashore a Trinity House mechanic. She left the light-vessel about 5 P.M., and as...