LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Admiral Nelson, of Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON. — Information was brought to the Life-boat Station at 9.45 P.M. on the 17th May, that a vessel had beaten over the Brazil Bank and had sunk in the Kock Channel. The wind was blowing from the W.S.W. at the time; the weather was...
Florence Mary
A fishing-dandy was seen, daring a break in a thick fog at 10 A.M. on the 16th June, stranded on the North Scroby Sand. A strong breeze was blowing at the time from the 8., and there was a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to...
A Yacht and Two Barges
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the motor life-boat, as reported on page 551 of The Life-boat for October, rescued seven people from a yacht and two barges, and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to...
Ladas
The Life-boat was called out on the 19th December to the assistance of the trawler Ladas, of Grimsby, which had stranded at Marske.
When the Life-boat first reached the vessel the master declined any assist- ance and the...
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MATERNITY CALL Galway Bay. At 11.30 a.m. on 8th April, 1964, the nurse on Middle Island told the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed hospital treatment on the mainland. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary...
An Aircraft
Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
(Above) Coxswain Bruce Brown Aims
(above) Coxswain Bruce Brown aims the bows of his lifeboat between the outstretched arms of the head launcher.. - View image in PDF
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Jump to It!
RNLI area organiser Pauline Speed took the plunge to put the Humber lifeboat appeal in the spotlight.. - View image in PDF
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David Mcallister
David Mcallister, the first station honorary secretary in 50 years to be awarded the thaanks of the Institution on vellum. - View image in PDF
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Vortigern
POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia...