LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Santa Lucia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the coastguards reported that a motor yacht was drifting out of control about five miles off Warden Point, one mile south of Red Sands Fort, and flying a flag from...
Sirenia
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
A Motor Life-Boat Achievement
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
Category: Services
Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance
By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Mrs. Smith of Southport has handed to the Southport Guild the sum of £5, raised by a collection of a penny a week contributed by each member of the St. Andrew's Inner Wheel over 6o's Club.
Topsham Sailing Club...
Category: Donations
Woolwich Infant
At 9.30 A.M. on the 4th April, during a moderate E.N.E. gale and rough sea, the ketch Woolwich Infant, of Falmouth, parted her cable and drifted rapidly towards the Cowloe Rocks. A signal of distress was hoisted, and in response the...
The Russian Fish-Factory Ship Kartli
Search for survivors inHurricane Force 11 and 40ft seas A recent review of past services has led the Chairman of the RNLI to write to the coxswain and crew of the Islay lifeboat saying that it was now evident that a service carried out on 18...
Dear Reader
For 190 years the RNLI has faced the challenge of being ready for anything – whether it’s one person who needs our help, 30, or even 85 – as you will read in this magazine’s remarkable rescue stories.
To be ready for...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (11)
DECEMBER 24TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in difficulties about five miles west-north-west of Hartland Point. A...