LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Madre Dolorosa
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the honorary secre- tary was informed by the manager of a film company that the trawler Madre Dolorosa had grounded on the west bank about a hundred...
Best Wreck Service
The Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1966/67 to the Belhelvie and Collieston Coastguard Rescue Companies for their rescue of six men by breeches buoy...
Category: Awards
None (11)
Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...
None (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At four o'clock on the afternoon of 14th April, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a man in the Tuskar Rock lighthouse had injured his eye and was in need of medical treatment.
Rescued? By a G L Hardy
IT WAS THE YEAR I joined the lifeboat crew, and the second world war was nearly upon us. It was a bright early summer morning with a brisk breeze and I was sailing my dinghy through wavelets sparkling with the sun's jewels on their...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
An Inflatable Dinghy (2)
Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 13th of March, 1866, the Eight Hon. EARL PERCY, P.O., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was read by the...
Category: Annual Reports
Arnold Bratt
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At two o'clock on the morning of the llth of September, 1960, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Swedish steamer Arnold Bratt, which would make...
Jane
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 2 A.M. on the 16th August, 1939, a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a small yacht was showing red flares a quarter of a mile east of Portland Bill. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The motor...