LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1952
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
Category: Services
Yla Section
SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
Category: Articles
What's on this winter?
Courage on our coasts
For nearly a decade, professional Photographer and volunteer lifeboat Crew Member Nigel Millard has been capturing the spirit of the RNLI with stunning images of our...
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Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
Skill and Gallantry In North Wales. The Silver Medal Awarded to Porthdinllaen
IT was the 8th of August in Porth- dinllaen. Mr. Jones and his two nephews had gone sailing in their small auxiliary yacht Waterbell; but when they did not return by half-past eight, Mrs. Jones became worried.
At 8.50 p.m....
Category: Services
New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
Arawatta
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...
Sandling
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.39 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht two miles to the southward appeared to have broken down. The sails had been lowered, but she had a ball at the mast head...
Savourna
During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...