LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Jet Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...
Moray Firth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.-—At eleven •o'clock on the night of the 26th of November, 1952, the South Gare light- house keeper telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on the training wall in the River Tees, and that tugs which had been...
Gifts from a Collector of Flags
A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...
Category: Donations
Atta Boy
Margate, Kent.—At 7.27 on the even- ing of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that three men in a boat were in difficulties off Foreness Point and were drifting out to sea. At 7.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil...
Wolfsburg
Torbay, Devon.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the local Lloyds agent rang up to say that the motor vessel Wolfsburg, of Hamburg, had an injured man on board and would arrive at Torbay at eleven...
R.T.K
— The schooner JR. T. K., of Fowey, was seen to show signals of distress when off the North Foreland, on the 12fch March. It was blowing a gale from W.S.W. and the sea was heavy. Without delay the No. 2 Life-boat, Civil Service, No. 1,...
Dorbie
On 9th January the Hull trawler Dorbie was wrecked, and eight men of the crew were rescued by the Longhope Life-boat. The Stromness Life-boat was also launched.—Rewards : Longhope, £44 5s. 6d ; Stromness, £14 Os. 6d. (A full...
Alice Eleanor
FISHGUARD.—On the morning of the 2nd March the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by a messenger that a vessel was on her beam ends, with all her sails blown to rags, east of Strumble Head.
Shortly afterwards another...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 3rd September and 16th November the John Fielden Life-boat also proceeded out to the bar and remained there until the fishing-cobles, which had been overtaken by stormy weather, were all got safely into harbour..
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review
As part of its constant efforts to mee* increasing demands on its services in the most efficient way possible, the R.N.L.I, has engaged P.A. Management Consultants Ltd. to help draw up a programme to improve the Institution's cost...
Category: Committee