LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hopeful
FISHING KETCH AGROUND At 4.17 p.m. the following day, the Queen's harbourmaster told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the breakwater near the lighthouse. As the tide was due to ebb for i^- hours and there was a fresh...
An Aeroplane (27)
JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
Silvia
Shortly before 11 A.M. on the 22nd December, a telephone message was received through the Coastguard from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel, stating that there was a schooner ashore on the Sand, with a flag flying at half-mast on the mizen.<...
The Netherlands Fishery Cruiser Vos
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DUTCH TRAWLER Berwick-upon-T weed, Northumberland.
At 12.14 on the afternoon of the 14th June, 1962, a message was received from the staff of the Flag Officer, Scotland, that the Netherlands fishery...
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
Landmarks In Station Histories
THE life-boat station at the Humber this year celebrated the 150th anni- versary of its foundation. A certificate inscribed on vellum, signed by H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, was presented to the...
Category: Articles
July (1)
MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
Lucinde of Memel
On the night of the 17th September, 1859, the Prussian brig iMcinde, of Metnel, ran ashove off Mis- ner Coastguard Station on the Suffolk coast.
Intelligence of the same was immediately conveyed to Southwold, with the...
Dee Dee
NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER Selsey, Sussex. At 7.55 on the evening of the 26th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Owers lightvessel that a cabin cruiser was...