LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Ranger
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
The S.S. Bidassoa
MAY 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.13 P.M. the coastguard passed to the life-boat station a message from the resident naval officer at Penzance, that a vessel with a dangerous list was about four miles N.E. of Pendeen...
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Inshore Rescue Boats
600 CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels (4) Commercial fishing vessels . .
(5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing...
Category: Services
Rosehearty, of Fraserburgh
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At six in the morning the coastguard reported a drifter ashore on the rocks near St. Combs. A light southeast wind was blowing, but the sea was rough on the beach and there was some fog.
The Duty of Watching the Coast for Casualties
THE exact position which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION occupies with regard to keeping a watch for casualties seems to be very little understood by the general public, the result being that on several occasions the Coxswains of...
Category: Articles
A Book of Flags
(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.
Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...
Category: Articles
Concerto and Martez
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Solomon Browne,
The last Gold Medal was awarded 16years ago, posthumously to Coxswain Trevelyn Richards of the Penlee lifeboat. The award followed the tragic loss of the 47ft Watson class lifeboat Solomon Browne, her entire crew and four survivors she had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Buenos Aires
BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been fired by the East Goodwin and North Sand Head light-vessels, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 4 A.M. on the 24th May, and found theschooner Buenos Aires, of Hamburg, stranded on the...