LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.30 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the local medical officer if the life-boat would take the county surgeon and his assistants from Cahirciveen to Valentia Island as...
Peace and Angostura
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...
Agm (Continued from Page 51}
(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...
Category: Meetings
Nomis
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Doreen
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.50 on the night of the 27th of April, 1950, lights, believed to be flares, were seen from the signal station. At 10.15 the police confirmed seeing them from St.
Martin's Point. At 10.45...
Annie
Three days later the James Stevens No. 15 was again called out, and rescued the crew of seven men of the smack Annie, of Wexford. In answer to her signals of distress, the Life-boat proceded at 7.30 P.M. and found the smack near the bar at...
Solstad
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E.
of Montrose, and...
Solstad
OC T. 10T H . - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Rick Tomlinson A Trent class lifeboat on trials off Cowes in winds gusting to 50 knots. This is one of many spectacular photos which appear in Rick Tomlinson's 1996 Lifeboat Calendar. Details on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rivergate
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four survivors of the motor vessel Rivergate of Hull were on board the Inner Dowsing light- vessel and...