LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lucille
A motor boat named Lucille, belonging to the local Sea Scouts, left Piel about 10 A.M.
on the 20th August for a return trip to Fleetwood. She had not returned by 10.20 P.M., and no news could be got of her, so the Motor...
Photographic Competition
THE Institution is holding a competition for the best photograph of a life-boat, a life-boat station, or an actual rescue.
The competition is open to members of life-boat crews, branch members and officials, and members of...
Category: Articles
Oscar
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
Royal
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 5.33 A.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands. The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell. At 5.57 A.M. the motor...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Margate, Kent.—At 3.22 on the after- noon of the 7th of August, 1952, the Reculvers coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile east of Reculvers. As no boat was available at Herne Bay, the life-boat North...
Centenary of Sennen Cove Life-Boat Station
THE centenary of the life-boat station at Sennen Cove, which was estab- lished in 1853, was celebrated by a dinner held at the Land's End Hotel on the 21st of April 1953. A certifi- cate inscribed on vellum was presented by Earl Howe,...
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Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles
Welsh Lady III and Sultan
STEERING CABLE PARTED Rhyl, Flintshire. On 29th May, 1965, the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall had launched for a special exercise with a helicopter when the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Welsh Lady HI spoke to the life-boat's...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...
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NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.