LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.44 on the night of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been seen to burn flares one mile off Minster, Isle of Sheppey.

At 10.15 the life-boat Greater...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 11.47 on the night of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties ten miles south-west of Bardsey Island. A very strong south-...

Margate, Kent.—On the evening of the 18th July it was reported that a dinghy with a boy on board had been missing from Tankerton since the afternoon.

A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary...

Lifeboat Services August, September and October 1988 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Anin ON 1050: October 20 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 27 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 8, 20. 29, September 3,...

Aberdeen, Grampian Arun ON 1050: September 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 9 (four times), 11, 20, 27, September I, October 6 (twice), 14 and 21 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 5 (three times), 15, 18, 20, September 6 and...