LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
Category: Committee
A Motor Salmon Coble (1)
Whitehills, Banffshire, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—20th March, 1939. A motor salmon-coble was reported overdue, but she was picked up and towed to safety by a motor boat.—Rewards: Whitehills, £9 7s. 9d; Fraserburgh, £7 6s. 6d....
The S.S.Holstein, of Bremen, and the S.S. Freya, of Copenhagen
Selsey, Sussex.—27th June. The s.s.
Holstein, of Bremen, and the s.s. Freya, of Copenhagen, had collided. The Freya needed help but she was towed to Southampton by a tug.—Rewards, £9 12s. 6d..
A Barge (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—1st February, 1938. A barge was in distress, but a coasting motor vessel towed her into Yarmouth Roads. The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat was launchedand the Caister...
Westwind
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On 30th May, 1938, the motor life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden towed the German yacht Westwind, of Bremen, to Harwich. (A full account appears on page 538)..
A Fishing Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
A fishing boat had been disabled by nets fouling her propeller, but another fishing boat towed her into harbour. - Rewards, £8 7s. 6d..
Your Letters
Thanks to Alderney...
The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...
Category: Correspondence
The Guernsey Fishing Vessel Petit Michel
Disabled fishing boat TORBAY LIFEBOAT Princess Alexandra of Kent, a 52' Barnett class built in 1958, slipped her moorings at 1950 onDecember 16, 1973, in response to mayday call received by Berry Head Coastguard from the Norwegian vessel...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
be...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting. Life-Boatmen Were Honoured
Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings