LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.10 at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares off the Ramsgate bathing station. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 10.32 in a calm sea and found the motor cruiser Daphne...

IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.

David's, was made...

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

Troon, Ayrshire - At 9.30 p.m. on 22nd March, 1967, a message was received that blood plasma was urgently required at Lamlash. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken, with the plasma aboard, slipped her moorings at 10.6 in a strong westerly...

JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...

When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.

Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...

On the 2nd August the dandy Fraternite, of Fecamp, whilst beating through the roads, collided with a steamer and was commencing to sink. Her crew took to their boat and were picked up by a shrimping boat and taken to Yarmouth. The Gorleston...