LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the Anzio I
ON the night of 2nd /3rd April, 1966, the motor vessel Anzio I went aground.
The Humber life-boat was launched. She was unable to save any lives, but for the attempt which she made in extremely severe conditions Coxswain...
Category: Services
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.
The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
Category: Services
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
Category: Services
Bessie Jones
BLACKPOOL.—On the 26th February, at 7.30 A.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel had just been seen on the Salthouse Bank with a signal of distress flying. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.W., and the sea was...
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
June (1)
JUNE MEETING HAROLDSWICK, UNST, SHETLANDS. At 7.40 A.M. on the 15th April, 1940. the subpostmaster at Haroldswick reported to the coastguard that a small ship’s boat, with men on board, had been seen in Haroldswick Bay about a mile from the...
Category: Services
Letters
THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...
Category: Correspondence