LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferm
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had...
A Yacht
FIVE PEOPLE TREATED FOR EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.50 on the night of Sunday the 14th July, 1963, the Mersey Docks Harbour Board informed the coxswain that a French trawler had taken a disabled yacht in tow and asked if the Moelfre...
Royal gratitude
This is the moment that the RNLI’s Patron, HM The Queen, thanked Newhaven lifeboat crew for their courage during the October storms. Her Royal Highness met Newhaven lifeboat Coxswain Paul Legendre during a visit to Newhaven after the crew...
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
Karina
Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had capsized a mile off Polkerris and that four people were in the water. There was a moderate northerly breeze...
A Fishing Boat
PETERHEAD.—On the 13th April the Life-boat George Pickard was launched at 2.20 P.M. to the assistance of a fishing boat which was in danger, her mast having been carried away in a whole gale from S.E. and a heavy sea. Other boats, however,...
A Fishing Vessel
Dover, Kent.—At 10.35 in the morn- ing of the 15th of March, 1950, the signal station at the eastern arm of Dover Harbour reported a small motor boat drifting about a mile and a half off Dover, with her crew of two waving for help. At 10.50...
Cameo
YACHTMEN'S FRANTIC SIGNALS Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1 Ithof August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the crew of a yacht four to five miles south-south-east of Newhaven were waving...
Athol, of Ardrossan
On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.
The Pringle Kidd life-boat...