LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Drifter
OCT. 26TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got in to the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided. The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea. -...
May (1)
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. On the evening of the 16th of February, 1944, three men came ashore in their own punt from a hopper of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and anchored in the harbour. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
R. B., of Bayonne
The schooner -B. B., of Bayonne, had anchored in Clo- velly Eoads on the 19th December, and it was ascertained that she was partially dis- abled from loss of sails, spars, and both boats. On the following morning, in a very severe gale from...
A New Superintendent at the Depot
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
Category: Committee
The Three-Masted Schooners Queen of Mistley and Willim
BROUGHTY FERRY.—A telegram having been received stating that two vessels appeared to be embayed at the mouth of the Tay and were in danger of being driven on the banks, on which a terrific sea was breaking, during a very strong gale from the...
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MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th August, 1962, the Wicklow honorary secretary asked if the Arklow life-boat would land a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel as the man's father...
Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tana the R.N.L.I.
R.N.L.I. 41ft. Watson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
Category: Advertisement
John
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
Letters
Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.
Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...
Category: Correspondence
Ambassador and Ashlowe
SWANSEA.—The Life-boat Wolverhampton was launched at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd January, in answer to a signal of distress from the barque Ambassador, of Aberdeen, bound from Cardiff to Bio with a cargo of coal, which bad been in collision with...