LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...
Vandro
AUXILIARY KETCH TOWED TO HARBOUR Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 10.20 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Galloper lightvessel had reported that a large auxiliary ketch...
The Long Search
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to each of the crew of the Lerwick, Shetlands, life-boat for the escort service they provided to three...
Category: Services
The Best Essay
By BARBARA BULL (14J), Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants.
The Qualities that make THE Vikings of old were children of the sea, loving the waves they fought and conquered, but as cruel as the surging waters they...
Category: Articles
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Oscar
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
Helene Lohden and Restitution
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 23th January the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. As quickly as possible the crew of the No 1. Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat,...
The S.S. Cairnmona (1)
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Isle of Man
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.
Category: Inaugurations
Charter
Just after 6 P.M. on the 7th January the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had stranded about half a mile west of Sewer Mill Cove. The motor life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath found the steam trawler Charter, of Lowestoft, fast aground....