LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Inner Dowsing Lightvessel
FOUR WERE STRANDED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 8.10 a.m.
on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men and two boys were stranded on the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. They had secured to the...
The Lifeboat Launches
The lifeboat launches to the scene of the incident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Kandee
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.— At 11.5 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1954, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that a wireless message had been received from the mail steamer Hibernia that a sailing boat had cap- sized off the Kish...
The Danish Schooner Sif
JULY 2ND. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
The Danish schooner Sif, of Marstal, appeared to be in difficulties, but she was only waiting for a pilot.-Rewards, £5 15s. 6d..
Notes of the Quarter
HER MAJESTY Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the Institution, will be the guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15. She will address the meeting and present the awards for gallantry and...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
Category: Articles
The Motor Yawl Lily
FEBRUARY 9TH . - ABERDEEN. On returning to port at 6.12 P.M. the motor yawl Olive reported that she had spent an hour searching for the motor yawl Lily, of Aberdeen, which had been last seen disabled off the mouth of the River Don. A light S...
The Sebastian, of London
FEBRUARY 15TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
About 8.10 in the morning the Stornoway coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress in the neighbourhood of Glas Island, Scalpay, some forty miles away. She was the Sebastian,...