LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue Call
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Boat (2)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...
Straight Flush
Margate, Kent. At 11.25 on the morning of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore near the South Margate buoy and needed help. At 11.38 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....
A Catamaran
TWO SURVIVORS FROM CATAMARAN LANDED Dungeness, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized and that two people were in the water off Greatstone. The...
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Report. 1905
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 15th day of March, 1905, The Most Honourable The MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, P.O., C.B.,...
Category: Annual Reports
New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL, KENT • AND FETHARD, Co. WEXFORD.—The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these stations have recently been replaced by new boats— the North Deal boat being a large sail- ing boat of the self-righting type, named the Charles...
Category: Articles
Lord March
At 5.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, during a W.N.W.
hurricane, the schooner Lord March, of Whitstable, was observed about five miles to the north of Palling, flying signals of distress. With all speed the crew of the No. 2...
Maybird
On the afternoon of the 13th June the civic guard at Wexford telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy showers. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at...
Gypsy
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.50 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Penmon coastguard reported that a vessel was in difficulties in Penmaen Mawr and required help. The life- boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 11.5. The...