LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prelude
DOCTOR TAKEN TO OWNER OF YACHT Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yachtsman on board the yacht Prelude had reported by radio-telephone that the owner of the yacht had...
A Coaster
Hastings, Sussex - At 6.22 p.m. on 1 8th June, 1967, it was reported that coaster had engine trouble about four miles south of Hastings. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.51 in light south easterly wind and a smooth sea.
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A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 2.28 on the afternoon of the 26th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light had been seen north-east of Orlock Head. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put...
Le Cap
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 1.25 On the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1951, the harbour master reported that the motor vessel Le Cap, of Carteret, which had left St. Helier for Gorey with a crew of three, had wirelessed a distress...
A YEAR's ADOPTION
When an IRB boat was displayed at Worple Road Infants' School, Isleworth, Micclesex, coupled with a talk on the life-boat service, the R.N.L.I. received letters of appreciation from some of the pupils. The letters were accompanied by...
Category: Donations
Service to Mi Amigo:
Service to Mi Amigo: On the evening of March 19, 1980. the radio ship Mi Amigo was reported to be dragging anchor in the vicinity of NW Long Sand Beacon. Sheerness lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney1 Helen Turnbull, under the command of Coxswain...
Category: Services
Trimley Maid
Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.
The service was carried out in...
Mirror Image
Crewman steers yacht to place of safetyThere is no such thing as a routine job for lifeboat crews. When the Campbeltown lifeboat was called out on 1 October 2000, it was simply to escort a troubled yacht to the safety of Carnpbeltown Loch....
Kyle Rona
Barra Island, Hebrides.—During the night of the 31st October, 1938, a whole south-westerly gale sprang up, and the steamer Kyle Rona, of Glasgow, which was at anchor in the bay, lost one of her anchors and was in danger of being driven on...
A Ship (3)
NOVEMBER 7TH. - SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. A ship was sinking near the Nore Light-vessel, but when the life-boat arrived she had sunk. Some of her crew had been rescued by the light-vessel. - Rewards, £7 7s. 9d.