LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harriet and Venus
At about 7.35 P.M. on the 28th No- vember, signals from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships were seen, and the Life-boat and steam-tug proceeded through the Cudd Channel to the North Sand Head. They saw a flare from a vessel on the sand,...
Ellen
CARDIGAN.—About 2 P.M. on the 1st November it was reported that the smack Ellen, of Milford, which had during the day come up from the westward, and had brought up in the bay outside the bar, had hoisted a flag for resistance, and that she...
A Boat (2)
Dover, Kent - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a man was seen waving a white flag in a small boat about three quarters of a mile off the coast midway between Dover and Folkestone. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at 5.23. It...
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Your Letters
Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.
The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—Several fishing cobles were returning home on the morning of the 18th March when the sea rapidly rose and rendered it highly dangerous for the boats to cross the bar. Two of them had very narrow escapes of broaching-to and being...
People and Places
Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
Category: Articles
Honours for RNLI people
RNLI Clinical Operations Manager Paul Savage, who developed a pioneering casualty care course for lifesavers, was one of four of our people recognised in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
Paul (pictured above) – who...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1957, a message was received that an open boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles outside the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 1.28 the life-boat South- ern Africa...