LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tender
Moelfre, Anglesey. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of Septem- ber, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a tender engaged on diving operations had dragged her anchor in Benllech Bay. One engine had stopped and...
Wairakei II
Margate, Kent.—At 5.32 in the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had radioed through the North Foreland Station that Mid-Barrow Lightship had reported a motor launch ashore near No. 11 Buoy. The life...
Gifts In Kind
YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, the RNLI receives from a number of companies free supplies of goods for use in lifeboats; gifts which are greatly appreciated both for their intrinsic value and for the underlying continuity of support which they exemplify...
Category: Donations
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat for Liverpool
Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
Category: Articles
Debonair
THURSO.—During a very strong gale from the N.E. and a high sea, on the 31st January, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Debonair, of Wick, bound from Castlehill for Newcastle with stone, which was riding in a somewhat dangerous...
International Boat Show
AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...
Category: Articles
Silver Pearl, of Ayr
JUNE 2 7TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel, apparently at anchor, to the south of Portpatrick. The naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out and investigate. A strong...
Morning Star
TOW FOR TRAWLER Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.40 p.m.
on I4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the crew of a small yacht that a trawler had broken down about five miles east of Tenby. The lifeboat Henry Comber...
Mary Rose
Dover, Kent. At 1.45 p.m. on 3rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local motor boat Mary Rose was in difficulty having lost her propeller one mile eastsouth- east of St. Margarets Bay. The life-boat...
Tomaray
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one...