LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viscount
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND Margate, Kent. At 5.31 on the morning of the 16th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Viscount of Groningen needed help. Her position was not established,...
Nell and Jess
At 6.25 A.M. on the 29th December the watchman re- ported that the Lightship off Newhaven was firing distress signals; the Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was there- fore dispatched. It was blowing a strong N.N.W. gale at the time, and...
Reaper
At 10.50 P.M. on the 16th February information was received that a ship close to the end of the breakwater was making signals of distress. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was promptly dis- patched to her assistance and found the...
Port Talbot Rotoract Club
Shifting sands: who needs oil when you can make £400 selling sand? These arabs, more usually members of Port Talbot Rotoract Club, were undeterred when they could not obtain a licence to collect in the street for The Mumbles lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy
LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 19th March, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Great Orme's Head lighthouse that a dinghy...
Dusty Miller
ABERSOCH.—On the 10th October, a telegram was received from Barmouth, stating that a vessel was in distress, riding at anchor dangerously near to St. Patrick's Causeway, and that it was impossible for the Barmouth Life-boat to go to her...
A Yacht and a Dinghy
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...
True Vine
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
None (1)
On the 26th January a specialist was urgently needed, as the son of the lightkeeper was very ill. The only way of getting him was by sending the motor life-boat William Evans to fetch him from the mainland, and this was done. The life-boat...