LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
Borneo
Dungeness, Kent.—At 11.58 on the morning of the 28th of April, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say that the Dutch motor vessel Borneo, of Groningen, had been in collision with the Varne lightship. The life- boat Charles Cooper...
H.M.S. Research
NORTH DEAL.—While a moderate gale from N.N.W. was blowing, with a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th May, a boat, containing a lieutenant, five blue jackets and a marine, belonging to H.M.S. Research lying at anchor in the Downs, was...
Volant
BEIGHTON.—The Edbert BaiJces Lifeboat was launched at 5.10 P.M., on the 21st of October, signals having been shown by the fishing-smack Volant, of Dover.
The wind was blowing from the S.S.W.; the weather was thick and the...
Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...
Sensitive
At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 19th intelligence reached the station of a vessel being on the north end of the Arklow Bank. It was then blowing a moderate gale from the S.E. with very high sea. The Life-boat Out-Pensioner was...
Ivy P.
Wicklow.—On the evening of the 13th December signals of distress were seen coming from the ketch Ivy P. of Dublin, which was lying at anchor about two miles E.N.E. of Wicklow harbour. A strong S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
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Spray
At 12.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1966, the Dutch coaster Spray, of Joure, was reported aground on Newcombe sands, about four hundred yards from Lowestoft harbour entrance, and was signalling by light for life-boat assistance. The life-boat...
Tranquillity
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephonedthat a fishing vessel was reported to have been at anchor five miles north- by-east of Selker buoy since the prev- ious afternoon...