LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...
Category: Correspondence
Port Stanley
The large four- masted barque Port Stanley, of Glasgow, ran into Ballyheigue Bay, Co. Kerry, on 19th April, mistaking it for the mouth of the Shannon. Tie ship let go her anchors and saved herself from going aground, but remained in a...
Stone, steel and lifeboats
Our All-weather Lifeboat Centre (ALC) in Poole, Dorset, is really taking shape, and the project team are on target to open the doors for lifeboat maintenance in January 2015. The ALC will go on to build six all-weather lifeboats a year,...
Category: Articles
Bonnie Lass
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.27 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the North Foreland radio station had passed on a message from the motor vessel Bonnie Lass, of Shoreham....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.
The new boat is 34 feet long...
Category: Articles
Hoppet
ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...
Fishing Boats
Be- tween 7 and 8 A.M. on the llth May, when the fishing-boats were at sea, the wind began to freshen and the sea made very rapidly. As it was dangerous for the boats to attempt to take the harbour the Life-boat Theophilus Sidney Eclialaz...
Membership News
Active Membership The growth of our active membership continues to be encouraging, and at 13 September 1989 consisted of 149,076 adults, (24,743 Governors and 124,333 Shoreline) with Storm Force reaching 9,592 individuals and 144 groups.<...
Category: Articles
Sandwich
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.49 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the harbour office had reported a boat in need of help off West Cliff lift in Pegwell Bay. At 3.57 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Peggy II, and Jean and Barbara
DECEMBER 19TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to put out, as the fishing cobles were still at sea.
The sea was slight, but the strong northeasterly breeze was...