LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kestrel
At 12.35 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a small boat which had been towing a boat with engine trouble had slipped the tow five miles south of the breakwater.
There were three men on board...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...
Category: Services
Dry Run for a Lifeboat!
Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boat Station In Scotland. Barra Island In the Southern Hebrides
Barra Island in the Southern Hebrides.
IN July the Committee of Management decided to establish a Motor Life-boat Station at Castlebay, on Barra Island, in the Southern Hebrides. There has been a Station at Stornoway in...
Category: Articles
Olbers
At 6.45 P.M. on the 1st April a telephone message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore at Scotston Head. Coxswain James Cameron of the No. 2 Life - boat Alexander Tulloch started for the scene j of the wreck,...
Ferjo
STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was...
The Danish Ship Habet
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.20 a.m. on I3th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish ship Habet had requested the help of the life-boat to take a sick man off as he required medical attention. The...
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...
Alcmaria
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles...
Canores
Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...