LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rait Castle
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1948, the harbour master reported a telephone message from the Post Office at Barmston that a vessel was ashore, and the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was...
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Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey him to Inishere to attend a patient believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 the...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 7.10 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Dymchurch. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate...
Whiffle
SPEED-BOAT TOWED At 2 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Whiffle was in danger of being swamped one mile and a half south-east of Lulworth hi a fresh to strong west-south-westerly wind...
Mako
MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...
Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G.
By the death on 16th May, at the age of eighty, of Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a vice-president of the Institution, the committee of manage- ment have lost one of their most valued and active members. After a dis- tinguished career,...
Category: Obituaries
Latest from Loch Ness
As reported in the last issue of the Lifeboat, Loch Ness lifeboat station joined the RNLI fold on 2 April, and the crew have since been out on a number of shouts. At the time of writing, they had assisted two grounded cruisers and two yachts...
Category: Articles
Far West, of Newport
About ,7 o'clock on the evening of the 18th Novem- ber, information was received at Penarth that a large ship was stranded on the S.W.. Patch. The life-boat at once proceeded to the spot in tow of a steam-tug. On ar- riving alongside,...
Special Gifts
* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...
Category: Donations
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...