LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
De Ruyter
At 10.57 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler De Ruyter of Zeebrugge was in need of assistance in St. Ives Bay. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando, and Eva Child was launched at 11...
The Norwegian Motor Tanker Athos, of Flekkefjord
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary...
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service in 1957 to the Sandown arid Ventnor life-saving apparatus companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Fred Olsen Lines
Cruise to Madeiras the Canaries Special of fer to Shoreline Members Fares per person Cabin Description De Luxe Cabin - Bath/WC Outside Cabin - Shower/WC Inside Cabin - Shower/WC Outside Cabin - Shower/WC Inside Cabin - Shower/WC Outside...
Category: Advertisement
G. Bell & Sons
The most amazing life-boat story of them all? The cottagers just down the road from where the Louisa was nudging her slow way, inch by inch along Mrs Washford's wall, had come out into the road to see what was going on. A hundred yards...
Category: Advertisement
Inside the D Class
D class lifeboat Aerial Gecko Marine Safety Helmet (complete) Lifejacket Typhoon Dry Suit 40hp Mariner Engine with Tool Kit Self Drainer (Port and Starboard) This poster has been part sponsored by AV*N Manufacturer of the RNLI's D...
Category: Articles
Articles Held Over
OWING to lack of space the following articles and reports are held over until the next issue: " Memories of the Sea and the Life-boat Service," by Mr.
Ernest Woolfield, Honorary Secretary of the Kessingland...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Red Rose
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still...
Yvonne, of Cardiff
MAY 4TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 7.55 in the evening the coastguard reported a small boat drifting two miles north of St. David’s Head. A strong northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
Kathleen
At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....