LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
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Golden Galleon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.45 early on the morn- ing of the 18th of July, 1955, the Great Yarmouth police reported that the motor pleasure boat Golden Galleon, with one hundred and twenty-two passengers on board, had run...
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SKIN DIVER RESCUED Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 5.30 p.m. on 26th September, 1965, the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a skin diver was in difficulties a quarter of a mile south of the station. The life-boat crew were asked to stand...
A Dinghy (3)
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.20 p.m.
on 5th July, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell, which was on a publicity launch with several passengers on board, noticed that a small dinghy with a crew of two was...
A Pinnace (1)
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
Alexandra
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Lifeboat...
Oswy
On the 25th of February the brig Oswy, of Shoreham, being at anchor in a perilous position in the roads off Lowe- stoft, her crew hoisted signals of distress, when a yawl launched and proceeded to her aid, putting 6 hands on board to assist...
Neti
JANUARY 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.25 P.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a steamer had gone aground in Weymouth Bay. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 10.5 P.M. the motor...
Matchless
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Kock, and was in great...
Two Dinghies (1)
Ennal's Point crew ON THURSDAY June 4, 1981, The Mumbles D class inflatable lifeboat was at sea taking part in filming for the BBC 2 series 'Ennal's Point' when, at 1930, a dinghy capsized with Gareth Armstrong, one of the...