LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oberon
THIRD MAN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized off Coopers Beach, East Mersea, and that two...
Yacht Nicephore
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She...
Shamrock
— Early on the morning of the 9th March the coast- guard reported that a barge was drag- ging her anchors and making distress signals west of Castletown pier, Port- land harbour. A strong east breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The weather...
Wilhelmina (1)
RAMSGATE and BROADSTAIRS.—On the morning of the 22nd October the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, proceeded to the Goodwin Sands in reply to...
None (1)
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was...
Ivylea
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of December, ] 955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen between Hoy Head and Graemsay. At 9.23 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Pater son was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
{Incorporated by Royal Charter.*) Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE EIGHT HON....
Category: Advertisement
Navena
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of...
NEW YEAR HONOURS
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the New Year Honours : Mr. Henry T. Davies, coxswain, Cromer, Norfolk, life-boat.
Mr. Roland Moore, coxswain, Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat.
Mr. Neil...
Category: Awards
Ebor
HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...