LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (4)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—3rd December, 1937. A fishing boat off Courtown had been reported to be in distress, but no boat in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £6 6*. 6d.
Partly permanent paid crew..
A New History of the Life-Boat Service
PEEHAPS the most charming thing in Patrick Howarth's most attractive book* is the way in which he has set his story. As he moves round the coast, apparently quite casually, from one carefully chosen life-boat station to another, he...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
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A Small Boat (2)
— On the evening of the 1st June the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with two youths on board, was drifting seawards out of control. A strong squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat M.O.Y.E....
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1877
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddon- ness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the...
Category: Services
A Norwegian Vessel
A ship was seen with a signal of distress flying about half a mile to the eastward of this place on the 11th Jan., and the Life-boat at once proceeded off to her through a heavy ground sea, when she was found to be a Norwegian vessel of 134...
A Motor Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The...
The Bulk Cement Carrier BC Mercurius
Tow passed to coaster 400 yards from rock-bound lee shore Kirkwall - Scotland North Division Coxswain Captain William Sinclair, of Kirkwall lifeboat in the Orkneys, has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in which the...
A Spanish Trawler
International assistance from Westcountry lifeboat Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an...
A Steamer (6)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—1st October.
A steamer had foundered, but her crew took to the ship's boats and were towed ashore by motor boats.— Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..