LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Erillus
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the 14th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore on the Smithic Sands. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched...
Civil Servants' Gift
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
Category: Donations
Weeley's Fireworks
After the Weeley Festival in Essex, where thousands of pop fans congregated, a letter was received by The Daily Telegraph enclosing a cheque for £5 for the R.N.L.I. It was explained by the senders, Mr. Peter F. Amott and...
Category: Donations
A Cabin Cruiser (1)
West Mersea, Essex. At 4.15 p.m.
on 24th June, ^65, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was drifting down the river Blackwater past Stone.
At 4.20 the IRB launched in a strong gusting to near gale...
H.M.S. Malcolm
MOTHER WAS ILL At 9.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Malcolm was due to arrive off Scarborough at 10 p.m. and had to land a rating who needed to see his seriously ill mother. The high tide and...
Viking
BLOWN ASHORE Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.1 p.m.
on 6th June, 1964, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that one of the local pleasure boats had been blown ashore by the fresh south-easterly breeze and that...
Epomeo
EIGHT ABOARD YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 12.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Epomeo had engine trouble and would probably need help. At 12.30 the coastguard confirmed this,...
Freeleen
ESCORTED At 6.12 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Freeleen had broken down one and a half miles south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 6...
May Fly
Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was unable to make Ramsgate harbour and was dragging her anchor and in danger of going ashore. Six minutes...
Our Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed five miles south-east-by-south of Fairlight. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 10.9 in a...