LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vigilant of Kircaldy
On the 27th June, the schooner Vigilant, of Kirk- caldy, stranded on Taylor's Bank, at the en- trance of the Mersey. Being seen from New Brighton, the tubular life-boat stationed there by the Institution quickly proceeded under sail to...
Schooner George Smeed, of Rochester
LOWESTOFT.—On the 14th January the Life-boat Lastitia proceeded under sailto the assistance of the three-masted schooner George Smeed, of Rochester, which vessel, while on a voyage from Shields to Rochester, was observed to lose her foremast...
Kate
PLYMOUTH.—The barquentine Kate, of Greenock, laden with logwood from Laguna de Terminios to Plymouth for orders, parted her cables during a strong W. gale and a high sea on the morning of the 23rd March, and went ashore on the rocks in...
Longest Winter Service
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire-At 6.40 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. At 6.47 the IRB launched in a gentle easterly...
Brigg South Humberside
Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli Director Rear Admiral W J Graham (I) With Mr Roger Smith Deputy Chairman of Tricentrol Plc
RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (I), with Mr Roger Smith, deputy chairman of Tricentrol PLC after the official handing over by the oil company of their gift of a new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat for use in the relief fleet. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...
Category: Meetings
Gifts from Life-Boat Crews
THE Institution has recently received two gifts from its own Crews out of money which had been received for the salvage of vessels—£3 from the Clacton Crew, which on 2nd January last saved the barge Decima with two men on board, and...
Category: Donations
Morwenna
This service took place last year: No. 6 Life-boat Area Plymouth, South Devon - At 7.37 a.m.
on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dismasted yacht was burning red flares and drifting rapidly about one mile...