LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maggie
A gale from S.S.E. sprang up with exceptional suddenness shortly before .5 A.M. on the 22nd January. Several of the local fish- ing boats were off fishing, and three were taken into safety by the Life-boat Queensbury. The Coxswain was...
Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. E. S. Raymond, of Llandudno
Mrs. Eleanor Stephens Raymond, of Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, who died at the end of September, 1931, was a member of the Branch Committee at Llandudno, and Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. She had been associated with...
Category: Obituaries
A Small Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th September the Needles Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a small yacht had capsized about one mile west of the Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P.
was launched...
Water Lily
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At about 6 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, the coastguard reported a small longshore boat at anchor, a mile and a half S.E. of the Palling coastguard's look-out. - She was not making...
Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
A Motor Boat (2)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be...
A Sea Hornet Aircraft (1)
St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft...
Moya
Dungeness, Kent.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1953, the Rye harbourmaster reported through the Fairlight coastguard that a yacht one mile east of Rye harbour was making distress signals. At 6.30 the life-boat Charles...
Westmark
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a boat was making very heavy weather outside Aberdovey bar. The boat was kept under observation but was subsequently lost sight...