LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessy
PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—Information was received at 5.15 P.M. on the 10th April that a vessel was showing distress signals in Luce Bay. The Life-boat Frederick Allen was as quickly as possible transported on her carriage to the most...
New Organizing Secretary for Ireland
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL B. D. H. Clark, M.C., G.M., has been appointed organiz- ing secretary for Ireland. He has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Ross, R.M. (Retd.) who has held this post since the beginning of...
Category: Committee
Two Dinghies (1)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Provider
TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
Wellington
On the evening of the 10th November a mounted messenger arrived, and reported that a vessel was riding at anchor in the bay outside the bar, and making signals for the Life-boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W at the time. The...
Show of strength
The RNLI's history is full of dramatic twists and turns – and Alan Tyson's mission to weave them into a play is an interesting yarn in itself
‘Now hear ye all of this, good men of Bamburgh,’ shouted the cloaked man...
Category: Articles
Merlin, of Llanelly
On the 13th December, the Princess of Wales life-boat on this Station went off to the assistance of a vessel reported as being in distress in the harbour of refuge at this place, she having dragged her anchors near the Breakwater. It was...
Grania
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...
Closed Stations.
The stations at Southwold (Suffolk) and Walmer and Hythe (Kent) have been temporarily closed on account of the war. Of the life-boats at St. Peter Port, Guernsey and St. Helier, Jersey the Institution has had no news since the Germans...
Category: Articles
Cape Nelson
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 2.45 p.m. on loth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Cape Nelson, which was expected off the Tyne at five o'clock, wished to land a sick seaman. As soon as the...