LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. (Continued from "Life-Boat Journal," August, 1917, p. 198.) By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon. Secretary
THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
Category: Articles
Dorothy and Mary
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 8.30 P.M. on the llth December during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off and found the schooner Dorothy and Mary, of Carnarvon, coal laden from...
A Danish Auxiliary Schooner
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Newhaven, Sussex, life-boat was launched in a full gale to go to the help of a Danish auxiliary schooner.
The crew of eight were taken off by breeches buoy and...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...
Category: Meetings
On the Road
Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
Category: Articles
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
Category: Articles
Annarchy
In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
April (1)
PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (2)
— 26th July.
Searched for and found small boat the occupants of which had been drowned.— Rewards, £6 5s..