LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
HALF A CENTURY OF FUNDRAISING
The tale starts back in the 1960s, when two inspired RNLI volunteers were enjoying a Fred. Olsen cruise …
When supporters Howard and Poppy Bell encouraged fellow guests to help the RNLI during their holiday, the...
Category: Articles
Black Adder
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...
Cleave Petrel
Appledore, Devon. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th April, 1965, the coxswain was informed by the Clovelly second coxswain that the cabin cruiser Cleave Petrel of Bideford, sheltering in Lundy Roads, would try and cross the bar on the next tide. There...
Persaro II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.31 on the evening of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that an open boat with an out- board motor had broken down and was drifting about two miles off...
Emerald, of Glasgow
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7 a.m. on 7th March, 1967, it was reported that the m.v. Emerald of Glasgow was aground on Feolin Spit in the Sound of Islay but was in no immediate danger. The mechanic was maintaining R/T contact with the vessel....
Teresa
At 5 P.M. on the 15th October information was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a distress signal. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.20 P.M., and found the...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life- boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was out on exercise in the afternoon of the 27th of January, 1949, information was received at the station that a man at Baltasound, Unst, had been badly injured, and the...
Peter Carey
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.45 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard reported a trawler ashore between Noup Head and Start Point and at 3.38 the life- boat J. J. K. S. W. left her moorings.
There...
Joles
LEAKING PETROL TANK At 9.57 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat in Seaford Bay was flashing SOS. The tide had been rising for three hours; there was a slight sea with a gentle westerly breeze...
Olden Times
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — At 4.15 in the afternoon of the 27th of Decem- ber, 1951, the fishing vessel Dougals, which was in the harbour, reported by wireless that she had picked up a message from the steam trawler Olden Times, of North...