LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
It pays to say thank you A year ago last September I went on a sequence dance holiday to Paignton, in Devon, with the Rita Carrudus School of Dancing, of Harlington, Middlesex. During the holiday, money was collected by means of raffles,...
Category: Correspondence
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th February, 1912.
The Right Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of -the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefigwa refer to the number* of the Life-boaa OetaUet on pages 42-B3.) A Friend, per Pembroke Denman, Hon. Mrs. Jos., 152. Jacomb-Hood, Miss E. H., Roberts, Mr. W., the late,...
Category: Donations
Aeron Belle
At 9.20 A.M. the same day the Life- boat was again launched to a vessel in •distress off the Head, the wind having changed to N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale. In her first attempt to get out of harbour the Life-boat was un- successful...
Ansgar
Shortly before midnight on the 13-14th February a messenger reported that a vessel was ashore opposite Ardross Castle, half a mile east of Elie. It was blowing a S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea running.
The crew of the...
An Aeroplane (5)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Excel, of Dover
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 13th December the motor vessel Excel, of Dover, left Ramsgate for London. On board were the owner, his two daughters and son. The Excel ran into bad weather, her engine broke down, and she was driven...
Mervic
Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...