LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A German Trawler
1st December.
A German trawler, the Spitzbergen, of Wesermunde, stranded and the life- boat crew assembled, but did not launch, as the vessel was not in im- mediate danger. Later a message, believed to have come from...
A Trawler
25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...
A Dinghy (1)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.2 p.m.
on 20th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had capsized about half a mile west of the harbour entrance. At 6.5 the IRB launched in a slight southerly breeze and a...
Comanche
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 8.5 a.m. on 26th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Comanche had requested assistance as she was drifting towards Orfordness, dragging her anchor. The life-boat Alfred and...
A Rowing Boat
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
Miss Helen Greenham
Miss Helen Greenham, who died at the age of 79 on 8th January, 1965, was an honorary life governor of the Institution. She had been appointed to this position in December, 1955. Miss Greenham had also actively supported the Wallasey...
Category: Obituaries
Fitz's Flyer
Four rescued HEARING, soon after 1300 on Sunday December 14, 1980, that a yacht firing red flares had been reported off Eastoke Head, Hayling Island, Crew Member Frank Dunster together with Trevor Pearce, a shore helper and first aider, and...
CADABRA
Motor yacht Cadabra, which tours the coasts of Great Britain on sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd., a firm of stationers, has completed her fourth round-Britain trip, and Brian Hulme, Chairman of the company, has presented a cheque...
Category: Donations
Leeds Shoreline Branch
Leeds Shoreline branch have a portable stall, enclosed on three sides and roofed, which will fit into a small trailer. The sign above it was painted by one of their members, Paul Thompson, and at a traction engine rally held at Harewood... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lillian
NIGHT SEARCH THE life-boat at Buckie, BanfFshire, was launched on 8th August, 1971, because the 20-foot motor ketch Lillian, which had left Findochty at 3 p.m.
for Hopeman, had not arrived at her...