LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
B.P. Marketer
Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...
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Minehead, Somerset. At 6.5 on the evening of the 20th of March, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen on to the rocky shore about three miles west of Mine- head and was seriously injured. A rescue from...
A Dinghy and Aaron
Day of dedication NEWBIOGIN LIFEBOAT, the 37' Oakley Mary Joicey, launched on service twice on Sunday, August 1. At 1520 a service of dedication was in progress when members of the congregation noticed an inflatable dinghy being blown...
Jo-Anne (1)
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
The S.S. Torni, of Liverpool
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At two in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Torni, of Liverpool, had gone aground several miles south of Whitby Lighthouse. A fresh easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
Category: Services
Members' Page
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
Category: Meetings
Nereus
At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.
Her cargo had...
Edward Arthur
RAMSGATE.—At 11.45 A.M., on the 12th May, during a moderate E. wind and thick weather, signal guns were fired by the light-ships. The Bradford Life-boat went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan and found the schooner Edward Arthur, of...
Mary
A very heavy storm of wind and snow was experienced here on the 8th February, and the- sea broke heavily amongst the rocks. The schooner Mary, of Montrose, coal laden from Methill for Balta Sound, brought up at anchor north of the harbour...