LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Angloman (2)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Puffin
TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a...
Alhena
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the Committee was held on the 10th January last, at the General Post Office, Mr. W. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords, presiding. The report, read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., the honorary secretary, stated that the...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Carlotta
WALMER AND KINGSDOWNE.—On the morning of the 9th October the South Sand Head Light Vessel fired signals indicating that a vessel was in distress, and the Coastguard on duty at Walmer at.once reported the fact to the Coxswain of the Life-boat...
A Life-Boat Song
proudly rules the waves.
And honour's justly due To those who guard the Union Jack,— Our tars so staunch and true; But now a peaceful lay we sing, And glory, too, to boast Of those who rescue lives so dear From wrecks...
Category: Songs
Twelfth Rnli Lottery Winners
Twelfth RNLI lottery winners BRUCE PARKER, a regular presenter of BBC South Today, came to Poole headquarters on April 30 to make the draw for the RNLl's twelfth national lottery. A Channel Islander who grew up on the Isle of Wight,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Jutland
BLTTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—At 3.40 A.M. on the 19th of January, a steamer, which subsequently proved to be the s.s. Jutland, of Newcastle, bound from Chatham to Blyth, in ballast, with a crew of thirteen men, was observed behind Seaton Sea Rocks...