LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Totland
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the ketch Totland, with a man, his wife and four children on board, was drifting near the Stones reef. At 5.35 the life-boat Edgar,...
A Cabin Cruiser
Broughry Ferry, Angus.—At 3.47 on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the Dundee police telephoned that a cabin cruiser was drifting up the River Tay towards the Tay bridge and was in danger of colliding with the stone piers of the Tay...
Alouette de Mer
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the...
Bellbo
R.A.F. DESERTERS RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.35 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard at Warden Point reported a small yacht, with her engine broken down, drifting near forts on the Shivering Sands, and the...
Carousel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been observed dragging her anchor half a mile off Holland-on-Sea, and that there...
Tarka
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that he had seen a boat drifting off the Manacles and later stated that a steamer was with her.
At 5.50 the life-boat William...
Providence and Children’s Friend
MCH. 15TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The motor life-boat Frederick andEmma, which was placed at Amble when that life-boat station was reopened at the beginning of 1939, received her first service call at 8.30 A.M. She put...
Arasjo
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.58 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the j honorary secretary a message from the Norwegian vessel Arasjo, of Oslo, that she was aground on the outer sideof the Longsand about...
Red Snapper
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1952, the coastguard re- ported that the motor trawler Red Snapper, of Lowestoft, was aground on the Newcombe Sands three-quarters of a mile...
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. is to take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1968, at 3 p.m..
Category: Meetings