LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Ann
In a mode- rate gale with a heavy sea and a strong surf, on the 28th January, the ketch Sarah Ann, of Liverpool, bound from Port Colman to Beaumaris in ballast, became unmanageable, and the master, fearing he could not reach Holyhead in...
Nisser
MAN OVERBOARD ~ RED flares reported at 11.37 p.m. on 24th July led to the Moelfre, Anglesey, life-boat Watkin Williams, which is a 42-foot Watson type, going to the aid of the yacht Nisser of Hoylake seven miles east of Moelfre at 12.40 a.m....
Committee Member
Captain Sir George Barnard, of Hutton, Essex, who as Deputy Master of Trinity House, was an ex-qfficio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., is to remain on the Committee..
Category: Committee
Queen
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 5.52 a.m. on 9th November, 1968, it was learnt that flares had been sighted three miles south east of the Lizard. The life-boat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) was launched at 6.18. The tide was...
Chanakya Jayanti, of Bombay
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8.40 p.m. on 12th December, 1968, the signal station told the honorary secretary that a sick crew member aboard the tanker Chanakya Jayanti of Bombay required medical assistance.
The life-boat...
Former Assistant Secretary's Death
The death occurred on 9th June, 1969, of Mr. W. C. Payne, a former Assistant Secretary of the R.N.L.I., who joined the Institution in 1911. He retired in 1947..
Category: Obituaries
Onoway
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down off Flamborough Head. At 7.55 the life- boat Friendly Forester was...
Lenie
DUTCH COASTER AGROUND At 11.12 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Lenie of Steendam which had grounded on some rocks near Porthdinllaen during the early hours of the morning might...
Moran
TAKEN TO STORNOWAY Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.15 P-m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Moron of Glasgow, which wished to land a sick man at Stornoway, was now off Bayble, and asked if...
Forward
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 3.34 a.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen to the north-east. At 3.47 inshore rescue boat no. 9 launched in a light south-westerly wind, a...