LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fortis
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of May, 1951, the life-boat mechanic saw the auxiliary ketch Fortis, of Portsmouth, in a dan- gerous position off Weymouth. The honorary secretary, Mr. Kenneth...
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Fall from cliff INFORMATION that a man had fallen over the cliff near the Western Carricks was given to St Ives station honorary secretary by Land's End Coastguard at 1351 on Wednesday August 26, 1981, and he was asked to launch the D...
The S.S. Eika II
At 10.20A.M. on the 10th September ! a violent explosion was heard on board I a steamer in the vicinity of the Cross j Sand, and as it was thought that the ! vessel had been mined the No. 1 Life- ! boat Marie Lane was dispatched to her j...
The 35ft Pilot Cutter Leslie H.
Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...
The Brixham Trawlers Toreador and Red Gauntlet
HOUSE-BOAT ON THE GOODWINS Walmer, Kent.-—Early in the morning of the 9th"of November, 1947, the ex- Brixham trawler Toreador, towing from Brixham to Southend -another Brixham trawler, the Red Gauntlet, which had been converted into a...
Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
Category: Articles
M. Andre Citroen
The Institution has also lost a very generous friend by the death of M.
Andre1 Citroen, founder and head of the great French motor-manufacturing firm which bears his name. M. Citroen will be remembered not only for his work...
Category: Obituaries
Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
Attempted Rescue By Two Lytham Mechanics
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
Category: Services