LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND
The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...
Category: Articles
Laertes
Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1959, a sailing yacht which had just left Spurn was seen to be in difficulties and drifting towards the Admiralty boom. The life-boat City of Bradford III, which was at...
Mischief, of Caernarvon
On the 24th January, during a tremendous hurricane from the S., accompanied by thick showers of snow, the schooner Mis- chief, of Caernarvon, struck on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of Holy Island. Signals of...
Lupia
At 8.28 p.m. on igth April, 1967, it was seen that the Dutch coaster Lupia anchored off Longnose Ledge was dragging her anchor. The vessel, showing only a mast-light, made no response to shore signals. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
District Conferences
North-East of England, South-East of England, and North-West of England.
TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...
Category: Meetings
Flower of Portsoy
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
Frisky,
Salcombe, Devon. At 5.45 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a party of women were stranded near the Pig's Nose. They had landed by dinghy from their motor boat Frisky, which had...
Vestlaan
Just after mid- night of the 1st May the coastguard re- ported that a vessel had fired distress rockets from a position 400 yards south of Portland Bill. She had gone ashore at the bottom of the cliffs. The sea was smooth, and a light...
A Catamaran
When a catamaran capsized on 15th July the Margate, Kent, life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) went out in a north westerly gale with a very rough sea.
At about 11.30 a.m. the Trinity House cutter Penlee reported...
An Aeroplane (112)
AUGUST 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.35 in the morning a message was received from Hoylake coastguard that a Blenheim bomber was down off Walney Island, and the motor life-boat N.T. was launched immediately. A light...