LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Danish Auxiliary Schooner
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Newhaven, Sussex, life-boat was launched in a full gale to go to the help of a Danish auxiliary schooner.
The crew of eight were taken off by breeches buoy and...
Myrtle
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—The motor life-boat Helen Smitton was launched at 11 A.M. on the 21st February, as the local fishing boat Myrtle was seen to be in difficulties in heavy seas off St. Abbs Head. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing. The...
Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, reports that the club is growing, but that the demand for stamps is greater than the supply.
Besides...
Category: Articles
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Eastney, Hampshire. At 2.23 p.m.
on 5th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a bather was in difficulties off Eastney beach. At 2.24 the IRB launched in a slight south-westerly breeze and slight sea. The bather was...
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BODY SEEN At 10.5 a.m. on i3th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor patrol vessel Annabel had reported seeing a body in Dunnet Bay. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 10...
William and Martha
PROVIDED ESCORT At 7.35 a.m. on I2th March, 1966, the coxswain saw a local coble, William and Martha, at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth launched at 7.45 in a strong to gale force wind from the...
Crew Strengths
The Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I. have decided that the authorised full crew of all conventional life-boats shall in future be seven. Until now the authorised crew of wooden life-boats of over 41 feet in length was...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services from Page 191
Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.
A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...
Category: Services
Jo-Anne (1)
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
Pounds Per Head
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs