LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elaine
YACHT FOUND AFTER NIGHT SEARCH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-west of the Ventnor look-out....
The American Steamer Fort Perrot
JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...
An Ex-Naval Man's Gratitude
ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough,...
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy
On the evening of the llth September a message was received from a Teignmouth resident, through the coastguard, that a girl had left Teignmouth for Exmouth in a 12-feet sailing dinghy, and as a strong wind was blowing, with a choppy and...
The S.S. San Francisco, of Havre
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...
The Duke of Montrose
THE DUKE OF MOXTROSE, who had been associated with the Life-boat Service for nearly fifty years and had been Treasurer of the Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, died on the 20th of January, 1954.
He...
Category: Obituaries
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain GEORGE PERRIN, of Skegness.
He joined the life-boat crew in 1913.
For three years during the war of 1914 to 1918, he served as mate on drifters engaged in...
Category: Articles
When Cdr Bruce Cairns Chief of Operations Visited Flint In the Spring He Had a Special Word of Praise for the Very High Standard That Has Been Achieved By This Ilb Stati
When Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, visited Flint in the spring he had a special word of praise for the very high standard that has been achieved by this ILB station. Cdr Cairns (I.
centre) with John Latham,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day Sponsored Yacht Tender Rowing Race Was Won By Brian Watkins (I) and Malcolm Holland Twenty-Six Boats Took Part and £203 W
Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day sponsored yacht tender rowing race was won by Brian Watkins (I.) and Malcolm Holland.
Twenty-six boats took part and £.203 was raised for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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