LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Fern
On the 12th August, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, a telegram was received from the coastguard at Port Cranstal, about a mile south of the Point of Ayre, stating that a vessel was ashore there and that...
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Washed off rocks VALENTIA COAST RADIO STATION made a general broadcast at 1119 on Thursday August 26, 1982, requesting assistance for an angler who had been washed off rocks at 1000 close by Culoo Head, westward along the north coast of...
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
From volunteers to rescuees
Mike and Jan King have fundraised for a quarter of a century – but never thought they would be on the...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 4. The Rev John Raymond, Honorary Secretary of the Llandudno (Ormes Head) Branch
A LIFE-BOAT STATION was established at Llandudno sixty-one years ago, and for more than half that time, for thirty-one years, the Honorary (Secretary of the Branch has been the Rev. John Raymond, pastor during the whole of that time of the...
Category: Articles
Letters
Butaseis Together with countless people throughout Torbay, I was extremely concerned over the presence of the liquid gas tanker Butaseis. I have been advised of the outstanding action taken by the coxswain and crew of the lifeboat in going...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Trawler Euphrates
NORTH DEAL. — The Life-boat Mary Somermlle was called out by signals fired by the Gull Light-vessel in a strong breeze to a moderate gale and a heavy sea at about 9 on the morning of the 2nd August, and proceeded to the...
Widgeon
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.27 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1951, the Mid-Barrow Lightvessel reported that the cabin cruiser Wid- geon, of Ramsgate, which had broken her rudder, was tied up astern of the lightvessel and in need of...
Mascotte
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.50 in the morning of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht three miles to the north-north- west was flying a two-flag signal and appeared to have stopped in an unusual position. The motor...
Aquila
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...
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INJURED PERSON TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 a.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, a doctor at Castlebay told the honorary secretary that a person was unconscious as a result of an accident and...