LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE.—At about half-past six o'clock on the 27th January all the fishing-boats put out to sea in a moderate N.N.E. breeze. At about eight o'clock the wind became very strong and squally, with snow showers and a very heavy eea,...
A Small Cutter Yacht Florinda
A telephone mes- sage was received about 9.15 A.M. on the 13th November, stating that a small yacht was riding off Winspit, about a mile to the east of St. Alban's Head, with a man on board and that the Life- boat was wanted. A whole N...
Mr. B. J. Kirkham, of New Brighton
Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
Category: Obituaries
Pride of Helvick
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat five miles east of Ballycotton light appeared to have had her sails blown away. Ten minutes...
Spreety (1)
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
Winner (1)
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland.—At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Winner of Holy Island, skippered by the life-boat coxswain, which had left at 5.30 that...
A Great Rescue Recalled
ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
Category: Articles
Guiding Light
Arklow, Co. Wicldow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals were seen three miles north of Arklow Harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched in a very rough sea with a...
Lloyd's II
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
Category: Inaugurations