LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gratitude of Yachtsmen
ON the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow life-boat towed in the yacht Desina which had lost her rudder in heavy seas. One of the yacht's crew wrote to the coxswain: "On behalf of the two other crew members and myself, I wish to...
Category: Correspondence
Gypsy
At 7.30 a.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht three miles north ofPoint Lynas was in difficulties. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 7.40. There was a south easterly gale with a rough sea. The...
Haminea
INJURED CAPTAIN At 7.30 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coxswain heard from the honorary secretary that the life-boat would be needed to bring ashore the captain of the motor vessel Haminea of London who was badly injured. At 8.30 the life-boat...
Prelude and Marie Christine
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.20 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, two French trawlers, the Prelude and the Marie Christine, were reported to have broken down 10 miles west of Ardnamurchan.
The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Ormsby Queen
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 7.42 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ormsby Queen had an injured man on board. At 10.35 the trawler requested the help of the life-boat to convey the man...
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Review
'' Ships for All." By Frank C. Bowen (late Captain Royal Marines). Ward, Lock & Co'., Ltd., 6s'. net.
WHAT English boy or girl—and might we not add man or woman ?—does not take an interest in "...
Category: Articles
Temple Insurance
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Category: Advertisement
Cobles; Gloria, Seagull, Wave, Friend, Emily & May, Francis, Mayflower
The Life-boat George and Jane Walker was launched at 9.30 A.M. on 13th December to the assistance of eight of the large fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a S.E. gale when at sea.
The service occupied three hours,...
Hyperion
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched at 4 P.M. on the 2nd August to the help of the fishing boat Hyperion, with a crew of five, which was in difficulties owing to engine trouble. A moderate S.E. wind was...