LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Workboat International
E - U - R - O - P - E - S L - A - R - G - E - S - T The European Workboat Show has expanded rapidly and successfully with last year's visitors voting the show a huge success.
Well over 5000 trade visitors, from over 40...
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Selina, of Swansea
— On the 27th March, the schooner Selina, of Swansea, was totally wrecked on the Outer Stag Rocks, during a strong N.N.E. wind. The Anna Maria life-boat was quickly launched, but before she could reach the vessel, the master and a boy had...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched on the 26th March to the assistance of some of the local fishing cobles, in consequence of the southerly wind suddenly increasing to a gale, and endangering the return of...
Honor
During very thick weather on the 3rd October the steam drifter Honor, which was being employed as a mine-sweeper, ran on to the rocks and made signals for assistance. In response the Life-boat John Anthony was launched, and stood by the...
Magnificat
CATAMARAN DISMASTED Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.25 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coxswain sighted a catamaran being dismasted two miles east of Moelfre Island. The coastguard confirmed that the catamaran Magnificat was in difficulties and the...
Marie Celine
On the afternoon of the 9th August a tele- phone message was received from the coast watcher at Cahore that a ketch was ashore on the Rusk bank, about three miles from Cahore Point. A moderate to strong E. by N. wind was blowing, with a...
Margie
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.20 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the landing stage reported a boat was making distress signals in the Rock Channel, and at 6.41 the No. 1 life-boat William and Kate Johnston left her moorings. A...
Lady Mary
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 5.53 P.M. on the 7th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a barge lying about two miles south of Walton Pier was flying a distress signal. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea....
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
Category: Correspondence