LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
A Pleasure Boat
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 24th July, during a strong W. gale and heavy sea, a pleasure boat with four men in her was observed to be drifting seaward. The Life-boat Clara Baker proceeded to the boat, and brought her safely ashore...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...
Category: Awards
Book Reviews
• Roving Commissions (R.C.C. Press, price 42s.) is a limited annual edition of the Journal of the Royal Cruising Club, edited by Alasdair Garrett. If every reader gets as much pleasure and profit from these brisk, refreshing yacht journals...
Category: Articles
Busy Holiday Months
THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services
Premier and Pride
OCT. 31ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Two local fishing boats Premier and Pride were out, and anxiety was felt for their safety. The lifeboat crew and helpers assembled...
Peveril
FEBRUARY 10TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 P.M. a fisherman returned to port and reported to the harbour master that the motor fishing boat Peveril, of Douglas, with a crew of three, was still at sea. As half a gale of wind was blowing...
Reiger
DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate north-west wind was blowing, with a...
Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen
MAY 16TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
At 8.43 at night it was reported from Glandore that the fishing boat Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen, which had put out from Glandore, had not returned from fishing off Galley Head. A...
Trust On, of Peterhead
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...