LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amiens
APRIL 16TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.At 3.13 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire, and at 4.20 A.M. the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched. The wind was light and the sea...
Heavy Weather Training In the USA By Lt Alan Tate Staff Officer Operations (Training)
AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.
Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...
Category: Articles
Oceanic
RESCUE FROM TRAWLER At 5.18 a.m. on i7th March, 1964, the signal station at St. Peter Port informed the honorary secretary that Niton radio had broadcast a "Mayday" for the Bel- gian trawler Oceanic which was sinking in a position...
Lifeboat Services
August storms TWO DEEPENING DEPRESSIONS sweeping in from the Atlantic last summer within a few days of each other brought with them first, on August 9, severe gales with storm force gusts and then, on the night of August 13 and 14, storm...
Category: Services
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1959 included : K.C.M.G. COMMANDER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE A. H. P.
NOBLE, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.
(Retd.), a former...
Category: Awards
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.
North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...
Category: Articles
Monty
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the life-boat honorary secretary noticed that the local motor boat Monty, with a crew of two, had broken down one mile south-west of St. Catherine's Island. At 8.55...
Foxhound
On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...
A Dinghy (3)
MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.
On...
The Fundraisers
Celebration challenge London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.
The Yamaha/RNLI challenge saw Lakeside staff competing against their retail rivals in a...
Category: Articles