LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Opportune
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.4 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat near Proudfoot was flashing signals and had burnt red flares. At 6.30 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched....
La Jeune Fanny, of St Marlo
During a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, on the 14th De- cember, signal guns were heard from the lightship in the Prince's Channel. The Quiver No. 1 life-boat, stationed at Margate, was launched, and proceeded across the Margate...
Heimdal
Wicklow, and Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—• At 10.12 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the Wicklow life- boat's motor mechanic heard a mes- sage from the Portpatrick radio station that the Swedish steamer Heimdal was drifting near...
Ceremonies
Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
Category: Inaugurations
Heron (1)
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
Lugo
Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the...
Millom Castle
Plymouth, Devon.—The Motor Life- boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 9.5 P.M. on the 27th October to the help of the ketch Millom Castle, of Plymouth. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy and confused sea, and the...
A Yacht (4)
SUFFERING FROM EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.20 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted two miles north-east of Moelfre Island and at 3.27 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched with the...
Jolly Roger
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had capsized off Port Eynon Point. Her three occu- pants had been thrown into the sea.
The...
Tina
Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.50 on the even- ing of the 24th of September, 1957, a message was received that the yacht Tina, with a crew of four, had engine trouble three and a half miles south- south-west of Littlehampton. The life-boat Canadian...