LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clai
Dover, Kent. At 6.10 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares two miles off Leathercoat Point. A Dutch tug had gone to her help and had connected a tow line....
The Coningbeg Lightship
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 14th of June, 1952, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take a relief to the Coningbeg Light- ship next day and bring ashore a man whose father had died....
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mr. H. S. COLE, upon his retirement after 10J years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Rhosneigir Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To Mr. B. H. JONES, upon his retirement after 18...
Category: Awards
Voering
The steamer Veering, of Copenhagen, bound from Rotterdam to the Tyne, in ballast, stranded on the rocks off Whitburn in a dense fog on the night of the 23rd September. Information reached the Coxswain at about 11.30 P.M., and the Life-boat...
Upper Thames Branch
A small party of members of this branch visited the Depot at Boreham Wood on 6th October where they were received by Lieut.- Commander Harold Harvey, the Depot Superintendent, and Alasdair Garrett, secretary of the Association. After a tour...
Category: Branches
Ocean Prince
On the morning of the 5th October the steam trawler Ocean Prince, of Aber- deen, outward bound from Aberdeen, was making for Stromness Harbour with damaged boiler, when she ran aground on the Point of Ness, near Stromness. The vessel and...
Richard Hattrell
Richard Hattrell of the Osborne Hotel, Swansea, is an expert in devising new cocktail concoctions. This one, a mixture of brandy, blue curacao, lemon juice and egg white, called Life Saver, earns a donation for the RNLl every time it is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walter Bibby
RAMSEY.—Daring a violent gale from the N. and a rough cross sea with heavy rain-squalls, a signal of distress was observed on the steam dredger Walter Bibby, of Preston, which was riding heavily at anchor a mile and a half...
The S.S. Ben Varrey
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on the 4th April the coastguard reported that a steamer off the Calf of Man was sounding her siren, as if in distress. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor...
A Lightvessel
DOVER.—Signals of distress were fired by the light-vessel moored off the works in progress at the Admiralty pier, on the night of the 16th May .while a strong breeze was blowing from N.E. The Life-boat, Lewis Morice, was launched at 10.15,...