LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
Category: Articles
Rescue Among the Lobster Pots
A LETTER of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent, life-boat for the part they played in saving two...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scarborough.
On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
Albion
On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...
Arethusa
On the 5th November the services of the same life-boat were again called into requi- sition to go off to the rescue of 6 labourers on board the barque Arethusa, which was wrecked about two miles west of Lossie- mouth on the 1st inst. The men...
The Danish Fishing Vessel Senious
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.35 a-mon 22nd March, 1966, a vessel was reported aground to the east of Lerwick harbour. There was a moderate north westerly breeze and a calm sea. The lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth set out 20 minutes later on...
Moss Rose
ENGINE FAILURE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.34 a-m- on 2Oth March, 1965, the East Pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat, with an outboard motor, was in difficulties because of an engine failure and drifting seawards half a...
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INJURED WOMAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th February, 1963, the local nurse asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a seriously injured elderly woman to Rossaveel on...
Rose of England
Seaham, Durham.—On the morning of the 2nd of September, 1950, the new life-boat George Elmy was launched for exercise. The sea was choppy, with a north-north-westerly breeze blowing.
At ten o'clock they noticed a...
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Galway Bay. On the 8th of October, 1958, the Minister of State for Gaelic Affairs arrived at Kilronan with other officials in the island mail steamer with the intention of visiting the neighbour- ing islands by motor boat the next day and...