LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ronleo
Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
Category: Donations
Phoenix 194
OCTOBER 18TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A south-westerly gale was blowing up the Bristol Channel, with the heaviest seas that had been seen for several years, when at 3.45 in the afternoon the naval officer-in-charge reported that phoenix 194 -...
The Browns of Cresswell
THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...
Category: Articles
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Ocean Wave
DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two...
Resourceful
RESCUE FROM BARGE IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea,Essex. At 10.32 on the night of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen four miles south of Clacton pier. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Loma Novia
JANUARY 4TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.50 in the morning, a Preston Corporation lightman at Lytham telephoned that a tanker was aground. The St. Annes coastguard were informed and the naval-officer-in-charge at Fleetwood...
Enfant de Bretagne (1)
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...