LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
People & Places
Lottery The 41st lottery draw took place on Saturday, April 30 in the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket. This was the second time the event had been held in the store and was watched with great interest by local Saturday afternoon...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th May, 1902.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
New Committee of Management Members
THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd October, 1884.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P,, in the Chair.! Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and j Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- '...
Category: Committee
Eligug
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the police had passed on a message from Strumble Head that a boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. At 10.50 that...
Serento
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.18 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Leewick Sands. Two men were clinging to her. At 2.20 the life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden was...
Oscilla
St. Marys, Scilly Islands - At 9.43 a.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that the captain of the tanker Oscilla was in a coma and had to be brought ashore.
The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, with a...
None (3)
Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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Rejoice
The motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was launched at 10.15 A.M. on the 24th December, as the coastguards had reported that two motor fishing boats were making heavy weather off St. Mary's Island. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very...