LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thunderbolt
At 6.15 p.m. on 3rd August, 1969, the assistant mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had broken down and was drifting towards the Binks about one mile east south east of Spurn lightvessel.
At 6.26 the...
Cordon Rouge adventure
The RNLI has been named charity of the year by the Champagne G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Club, whose members include explorers and adventurers such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Ben Fogle and Dee Caffari.
The...
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A mes- sage was received from the St. David's Coastguard on the morning of the 23rd June that a vessel was in distress near the Smalls Lighthouse. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a smooth sea, but the weather was...
White Heather
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.17 early on the morning of the 6th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that shouts for help had been heard from a boat off the holiday camp south-west of the pier. At 2.22 the...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
Pride o' the Clyde
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, a life-boatman picked up on his wireless set a message from the motor fishing boat Pride o' the Clyde, of Tarbert, that she was aground at Skipness Point and...
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched for a routine exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. A. Perry, on...
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent Presents the Gold Badge to Miss Madge Tart
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Morning Star, of Dublin
The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months pre- viously ; and it was also the first occasion the boat...