LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Porthcawl - Wales and West Mercia Division
Porthcawl - Wales and West Mercia Division In its literal translation from Welsh, 'port - cawl' means 'port of boiling broth' as the seaside resort faces brutal prevailing Westerly winds and currents - and the highest rise... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st May, 1920.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Major-General Sir COLERIDGE GROVE, K.C.B., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
Category: Committee
The Life-boats of Ramsgate and Margate at Dunkirk
EVACUATION OF MEN OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND THE FRENCH ARMY FROM DUNKIRK.* THE WORK OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF RAMSGATE AND MARGATE.
At 1.15 in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30th of May, 1940, the Ministry of...
Guiding Hand
At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
Tay, of Dundee
During a strong gale from the S.S.E. on the 30th November, it was reported that the schooner Toy, of Dundee, was on shore on the Gaa Sand, at the mouth of the Tay.
The Mary Hartley life-boat was thereupon at once launched,...
Lifeboat Services
East Division MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an...
Category: Services
From a Life-Boat Collector
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
Category: Correspondence
Sarah Ross
Peterfcead, Aber^eenshire.—At 12.30 A.M. on the 26th August, 1939, a message was received from the relatives of two men on board the motor fishing boat Sarah Ross, of Peterhead, that they were overdue. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Spes Melior II
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 1st of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head.
At 1.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched. There...
Tansy
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 8.30 in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was blowing her siren and be- lieved to be on the Geddle Weirs Rocks.
A later message said that she had...