LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lebanese Vessel Kapitan Vanghelis
IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
Captain E. S. Carver
Captain E. S. Carver, who died at Littlehampton on the 12th of December, 1959, at the age of 81, first joined the Institution's staff as Eastern District Inspector in 1919 after service in the first war, in which he had commanded a...
Category: Obituaries
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Mine Host at Amble, When Amble's 44ft Waveney class Margaret Graham launched on 5 December 1989 to act as a safety boat for some RN divers about to explode a war-time mine she also found herself acting as a different kind of mothership -...
The Annual Meeting
The first full annual meeting for five years was held in London on October 25th., *nd H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, presented the eight gold medals won during the war for conspicuous...
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JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...
William, of Carnarvon
On the 29th Oct., 1868, during a hard gale, a smack, which was riding heavily in a danger- ous position outside the roadstead, hoisted a signal of distress. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was launched, and proceeded out, when it was found...
Volunteer
PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....
Kate and Elizabeth
KESSINGLAND,—At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th May , of Fortsmouth, stranded on the Barnard Sand, in a fresh breeze from the N.E., drizzling rain and a rough sea. The No. 1 Lifeboat jBolton was promptly launched, and...
Lady Betty
TWO MOTOR YACHTS BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a motor yacht in difficulties off Pcacehavcn, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched...
The Converted Landing Craft Mountain Ash
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1949, a fisherman reported that a vessel was on the rocks at East Point, and at 9.35 the life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched. In a very strong south- westerly breeze,...