LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Insignia
We would like to review the whole range of Association insignia available to members. At present we offer three sizes of house flag, a dinghy racing pennant, bow plates for dinghies, a plaque and, in the personal range, a key fob, ties and...
Category: Articles
Lieutenant Mr. F. W. Hayes, R.N.R., Late District Inspector of Life-Boats
Lieutenant F. W. Hayes, E.N.B., late District Inspector of Life-boats, died in a nursing home on 21st August. He was only in his thirty-fourth year. He was educated at Malvern College, and then became a cadet on H.M.S....
Category: Obituaries
Embla
MUHBSSI.BT, NOBTOLK. — At 5.80 A.M.
on the 28th November, the Life-boat J. B. Elliot was launched to the aid of the barque JEmWs, of Stavanger, bound from Christiansund for Cardiff with a cargo of timber, which had stranded...
My Lassie
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1949, the coastguard reported a boat, anchored off Pett, flying a flag at half mast, and the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at one o'clock in an east-...
A Small Speed Boat
Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.
The weather was fine and the sea was...
Forward
Holyhead. Anglesey,—At 12.35 in the afternoon, on the 4th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that red rockets were being fired by a fishing vessel off Rhoscolyn. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Holliwell
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.19 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1954.
the coastguard telephoned that the Mid-Barrow lightvessel had wirelessed that the motor cruiser Holliwell, which had broken down with a crew of...
Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Snowdrop
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 7.30 a.m.
on 15th June, 1967, it was learned that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop which had grounded on Tynningham sands could not be refloated despite attempts by local fishing boats. It was...
Pace
Swanage, Dorset - At 6 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Pace was broken down and becalmed and in danger of being swept on to the rocks at Anvil Point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 6.10. It was one hour after...