LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Season's Greetings
As Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating everyone associated with the life-boat service on their splendid achievements during the past...
Category: Articles
Susan and Isabella, of Dundee
At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
A Dinghy (2)
Three children adrift THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Margate lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1715 on Tuesday, June 1, that three children in an inflatable dinghy were being taken out to sea on the ebb tide.
In...
A French Trawler
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
Emerald and Aristides
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 4th of September two vessels were reported to be ashore at the mouth of the River Tay. A severe south-easterly "gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the Tay Bar. The English Mechanic...
Finance In 1941: Income.
The total receipts last year were £386,836. That is the highest they have ever been. The British public in spite of the increasing burden • of taxation, in spite of all the public and private claims on its purse, has never before given...
Category: Articles
Dispatch
At dusk on the evening of the 2nd October the schooner Dispatch, of this port, was making for the harbour, when the wind suddenly fell, and she drove over the rocks into the broken water. The master immediately showed a signal of distress,...
Monksgarth
At ii p.m. on 30th December, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the British ship Monks-garth which would be arriving at Mount's Bay at about 7.30 a.m. the following morning. The life-boat Solomon Browne was...
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Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 2.27 p.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the Baily lighthouse keeper told the honorary secretary that a yacht with two people on board was in difficulties off Rosbeg buoy. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her...