LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Monica
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 11.15 on the night of the 7th of August, 1958, a message was received that a motor launch had broken down with engine trouble one mile west of Hook lighthouse. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at...
A Touching Tribute
THE Institution has just received a most touching proof of devotion to the Life-boat Cause in the gift of two beautifully-dressed dolls, accompanied by the following note :— " To the Life-Boat Society.
"Miss finds...
Category: Donations
A Boat (3)
Margate, Kent - At 6.36 p.m. on 16th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coswain that a small boat with two men on board was in difficulties one and a half miles off the coastguard lookout at Foreness.
In view of...
Our Late Secretary
With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Tonnage Admeasurement (Continued)
IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....
Category: Articles
Pwllheli Naming Ceremony
THE new Pwllheli life-boat was named Katherine and Virgoe Buckland at Pwllheli on the 20th of August.
Captain R. E. Thomas, chairman of the Pwllheli branch, was in the chair.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, R.N.R...
Category: Inaugurations
A Tiger Moth Aircraft
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore....
Morning Rays, Amity and Copieux
MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
Alexandra
The ketch Alexandra, of Chester, left that port on 31st January bound for Millom with a cargo of coal and next day stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. For three days every effort was made to get the vessel off, and about thirty tons of cargo...
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...
Category: Services