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...
Category: Advertisement
New Ways of Raising Money
A collecting box placed at Mashford's Boat Yard, where Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV was berthed after her record breaking voyage back to Plymouth., raised £85 for the R.N.L.I.
* * * The...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m.
on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles off Porthbear Beach. There was a gale from the northwest with a rough sea. It was one...
Triton
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock onthe morning of the 5th October the fishing smack Triton, of Yarmouth, stranded on the Barber Sand. The weather at the time was squally, and there was a heavy sea on the beach and sands. The -vessel was...
Woolgast
The Caroline life-boat, stationed at North Berwick, N.B., rendered assistance on the occasion of the stranding of the brig Woolgast, of Woolgast, Prussia.
Flensburg
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 11.50 on the night of the 22nd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Flensburg of Kiel wanted to land a sick seaman.
The honorary secretary agreed that...
Frode
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1956, the Polruan coastguard reported white flares two to three miles south-west- by-west of the coastguard station.
At 9.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out....
Erratum
IN the March 1955 number, the cap- tion to a photograph of the Seaham life-boat incorrectly described it as the Sunderland life-boat..
Category: Articles
Remedy
Dover, Kent.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the police reported that the motor yacht Remedy, which had a crew of two, was in distress between the South Goodwin lightvessel and the Goodwin Sands. At 9.35 the...
Mina Cantiquin
On the 4th of November, 1951, the Coverack life-boat rescued the crew of seventeen of a Spanish steamer. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 284..