LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 1 Lives rescued 4 VALENTIA, Co. KERRY. The auxiliary broken down. A strong east-south-east wind rescue-boat, St. Bernard, was returning to harbour on the night of the 22nd of May, was then blowing and the sea was rough.
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Category: Services
Puffin, of Rochester
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...
St Abbs closure
The RNLI closed its inshore lifeboat station at St Abbs in Berwickshire in September, following an earlier announcement of changes to four stations in the north east of England and the Scottish Borders.
An extensive review...
Category: Articles
Selsey Station
AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...
Category: Articles
A Contrast
IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.
Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...
Category: Articles
Thankful
FEBRUARY 8TH . - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The fishing boat Thankful, of Scarborough, with four men on board, did not return during the afternoon, as expected, and another fishing boat went out to look for her, but failed to find her. At 6.30...
Britannia
APRIL 22ND. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth...
A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
Category: Articles
Lloyd's II
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
Category: Inaugurations