LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edwellis
Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.3 on the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat was flying a flag, which appeared to be a distress signal, three quarters of a mile off...
Ranzo
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...
Lundy Lady
Minehead, Somerset. At 10.40 on the morning of the 30th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had seen a yacht dismasted about three-quarters of a mile north of Minehead. A moderate west-south-west- erly wind was...
Margaret and Ann
At 8.45 on the morning of the 13th June a message was received that a vessel was in distress near Strumbles Head about three miles from the Life-boat station.
The No. 2 Life-boat Appin was promptly manned and proceeded to...
Sanchia
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
Your Letters
Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
Category: Correspondence
Fastnet Race Storm
DURING THE NIGHT of Monday August 13 and Tuesday August 14 southwesterly storm force winds, veering to west north west and gusting to hurricane force, struck the south-western approaches while the international Fastnet Race fleet of 306...
Category: Articles
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire - 31st January, 1969, the coastguard reported that an ex-R.N.L.I. Jife-boat on passage from Newlyn to Rosslare had developed engine trouble and required life-boat assistance. The Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
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Category: Advertisement
Special Gifts
From the Men of the Fleet.
A gift of £1,900 has been received from the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. This is a part of the profit made by the Naval Canteen trading during the past year, and it has been given to...
Category: Donations