LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maggie Murray
At about 11.20 A.M. on the 1st January it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that a small ketch was at anchor close to Allonby Bay, and as the weather was squally, with every indication of a heavy gale approaching, she was kept under...
Blinkbonny
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.7 p.m. on 5th November. 1966, it was reported that the yacht Blinkbonny was overdue on passage from Weymouth to Poole and had last been seen at 7.30 p.m. one mile and a half off Anvil Point. There was a strong north...
Lily (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 10.15 p.m. on i5th July, 1966, news was received that the m.f.v.
Lily had been towed from about 11 miles west of the Bar lightvessel by the Bar pilot boat and handed over to...
Mortar for Maroons
MORTAR for MAROONS.
This Signal Maroon has been adopted by the Institution in place of the Rocket Distress Signal because:
1. As there is no metal in its construction the danger of an accident through...
Category: Drawings
Life-Boat Cards and Calendars
This year life-boat supporters will have a choice of four Christmas cards and three prices. There will be a 5d. card illustrated by a bowl of traditional Christmas flowers and berries; a plain white card bearing the Institution's crest...
Category: Advertisement
Wreck of the "Ben Torc" Near Aberdeen
Wreck of the "Ben Torc" Near Aberdeen. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mikelis
SEATON CAKEW, DUBHAM, AND TEES- MOUTH, YORKSHIRE.—On the morning of the 1st April a Greek steamer of about 1,500 tons, named the Mikelis, and belonging to Argostoii, attempted to enter the Tees, bound for Middles- brough in ballast. Her...
Seniority
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...
The S.S. Hudson Sound
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF STEAMER Cromer, Norfolk. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the s.s. Hudson Sound of London was suffering from a severe pain under a...
Monhegan
At 6.10 p.m. on 2gth October, 1966, red flares were reported two miles north east of Tankerton. There was a moderate wind from the north east with a slight seaand rain squalls. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) launched at 6...