LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January
JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...
Category: Services
Pet, of Chester
Thurso.
Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March the news reached Thurso that a schooner, the Pet, of Chester, had gone ashore on the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five miles away. The night was foggy and very dark, with a...
Here and There
SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...
Category: Articles
Lochgoil
Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...
Registan
DOCTOR, AMBULANCE MEN AND PILOT TAKEN OUT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.39 on the evening of the 20th May, 1963, Niton radio station informed the honorary secretary that a seaman on board the motor vessel Registan of London had been...
Anne Agnes
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1955, the P'ormby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht needed help three and a half miles west of Lytham pier.
At eleven o'clock...
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Louis Marguerite and the S.S. Miervaldis
MARCH 17TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that the French steamer Louis Marguerite was in need of help ten miles S.W. of Penzance. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and thick fog....
An Aeroplane (59)
AUGUST 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7 A.M. warning was received from the coastguard of an impending air fight. The wind was N.W. and moderate, with a smooth to moderate sea. At 12.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported down off...
Services of Life-Boats
BARMOUTH.—On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as...
Category: Services