LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agatha
The steam trawler Agatha, of Grimsby, ran ashore on the beach outside Spurn Point at 9.15 P.M. on the 6th January. A moderate easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea. The Life-boat at once proceeded to the vessel which was found full of...
Sea Wolf
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.45 a-m- on 6th October, 1966, the local motor cruiser Sea Wolf reported by R/T that she had lost her rudder and might need assistance. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 12.54 p.m. It was two...
The Life-Boat Service and the Fishing Fleets
The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...
Category: Articles
West Coaster
WATERFORD. A W. by S. wind was OC T . 9 T H - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of London, which was in distress in...
New Life-Boat Station Opened
THE Duke of Richmond and Gordon opened the new life-boat house at the recently completed station at Selsey, Sussex, at a ceremony on the 18th of July, 1960. Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee Management of the Institution, gave an address,...
Category: Inaugurations
Dolphin
Margate, Kent.—At 1.5 in the after- noon of the 5th of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned information re- ceived from Herne Bay that a motoryacht was ashore on the Hook Sand- bank flying a distress signal, and the life-boat Lord...
Kurt Arlt and Petrel (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
The Navy's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
ON 8th February, 1940, the Institution received the following letter from Sir Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty: " I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they...
Category: Correspondence
Gesine
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 13 performed an excellent service on the 14th April.
At 5.30 in the morning a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks at Westhaven, Carnoustie. With all haste the Life-boat...