LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI in vision
Our charity has featured in a host of TV shows recently – which, as well as making good viewing, helps to raise vital support to help save lives at sea.
In October, ITV broadcast The Pride of Britain awards, and millions...
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A Meteor Aircraft (2)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...
Haminella
TWO CASUALTIES TAKEN OFF TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 5th May, 1962, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be launched later in the day to bring a sick man and an injured man ashore...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE national sponsored walk, 1971, raised £33,538 new money for the R.N.L.I. Among the completed walks this year was one by the Crayford branch held in the grounds of Bexleyheath School, where the sum of £590 was raised by children...
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Claremont
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The steamer Claremont, of Newcastle, was wrecked at Whale Chine, Isle of Wight, on the 27th January. Intelligence of the wreck was received at the Brighstone Grange Life-boat Station, and at about 11.40 P.M...
Vanadia
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 7.40 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in a dangerous place inside the revetment on the south side of the Queen's Channel near the Formby...
John M.
Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...
Mabruki
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.40 ill the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, Lloyd's Signal Station reported that a motor yacht was in distress and drag- ging her anchor one hundred yards off the station. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper...
Phrontis
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the police reported that a member of the crew of the local steam trawler Phrontis. which had left for a fishing trip, was ill and that she was returning to Fleetwood....
The S.S. Pompey Power
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 5.14 on the evening of the 18th of De- cember, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a wireless message had been received from the S.S. Pompey Power, of Portsmouth, that she had a very sick man on board who...