LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clovelly Lass
Plymouth, Devon - At 2.25 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, red flares were reported from a yacht in Cawsand bay. At 2.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings. It was three hours after low water. There was a south easterly...
Kyloe
St. Helier, Jersey - At 6 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, the motor cruiser Kyloe was reported overdue on a voyage from Carteret on the French coast. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at...
Richmond Castle
ENGINEER INJURED St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.55 a.m. on igth August, 1965, news came that the motor vessel Richmond Castle had an injured man on board and had requested medical help. Her position at one o'clock would be eleven...
Mea
The yacht Mea, of Hoylake, a cutter of about four tons, left Beaumaris at about 10 A.M.
on the 24th August, but owing to dark- ness was unable to make Hoylake.
Having no lights the two occupants cruised...
Four Brothers
ENGINE DISORDER Cromer, Norfolk. At 12.30 a.m. on 23rd December, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Haisbro' lightvessel had sighted red flares about two and a half miles to the southwest.
There...
Finance In 1940: Income.
The Institution's income was the largest it has ever been. It was £356,320.
That was £72,168 more than in 1939, and this splendid increase was almost entirely due to the increase of £63,749 in...
Category: Articles
Tealkenia Meiskeina
This life-boat was also taken out on the night of the 3rd October, a vessel having been reported to be stranded on the Gore Sands, on which, on account of recent gales, a considerable sea was running, preventing any ordinary boat from...
Sweet Home
— The schooner Sweet Some, of this port, sailed thence to Cardiff on the evening of the 15th August, but in beating out of the harbour she drove ashore at Moll Goggin's Corner.
The master and boy remained oa board to...
Providence
The ketch Providence, of Goole, bound from Hull to Wells with a cargo of oil cake, parted her anchors during a strong N.N.E.
gale when off the bar, on the 1st April.
Signals of distress were hoisted, and...
Kattie Darling
The Life-boat Elizabeth Austin was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 1st January in answer to signals of distress from a vessel midway between Cardigan Head and Cardigan Island. There was a strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. On reaching the...