LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
Dosinia
DEC. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. Information was received shortly before 2 A.M.
from the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine near the Haisborough Light-vessel.
A light southerly wind was blowing, with...
Award for Sixteen Year Old Boy
A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD boy, Arnold Togneri, has been awarded an inscribed wristwatch for the rescue of a girl off Dunbar, East Lothian, on the afternoon of nth April, 1965.
Arnold Togneri and two other boys, John and James...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Aquila
The s.s.
Aquila, of Liverpool, inward bound from Las Palmas'with cargo and passengers stranded near Rhosneigir, at 8.30 P.M., on the 6th April. A strong N.E.
wind was blowing and the weather was very...
Schermuly
SPECIAL OFFER TO SHORELINE MEMBERS FOR SCHERMULY PYROTECHNICS This coupon entitles a bona-fide Shoreline member to purchase Schermuly Distress Signals (Dinghy Pack, Offshore Pack, Cruiser Pack) at reduced rates (at least 10 per cent) on...
Category: Advertisement
Free and fun: Swim Safe is back
Sign them up for an hour.
Keep them safe all summer long.
Outdoor swimming and water safety sessions for children aged 7–14 – with Swim England and the RNLI.
These hour-long sessions, run by qualified...
Category: Advertisement
Special Gifts
From Mid-Atlantic.
WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Peregrine
In the case of the Walton rescue, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was called out at 10.30 P.M. on the 29th December, a telephone message having reported that the s.s. Peregrine was ashore on the Longsand with about 60 passengers on board,...
A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 4.30 a.m. on 22nd September, 1969, the honorary secretary received an anticipatory message from the coastguard reporting that a speedboat with three men on board was overdue from a fishing trip. At 8.13 the coastguard...
Corduff
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...