LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
the 47' Cabin Cruiser Shark
Trapped below THE RAMSGATE/CALAIS HOVERCRAFT advised HM Coastguard Dover Straits at 0925 on Thursday August 4, 1977, that distress flares had been seen on the eastern edge of the Goodwin Sands, near the East Goodwin Lightvesselwhere a cabin...
People and Places
Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Boats Victory and Billows Crown
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. — On the morning of the 20th August a strong gale blew up from the south-east, with driving rain and a rough sea. As the local motor fishing boats Victory and Billows Crown were still at sea, the motor life-boat Helen...
Luncheon Clubs
LUNCHEON CLUBS associated with the Life-boat Service have become increasingly popular in recent years in Yorkshire. The first ladies' life-boat luncheon club was established at Leeds, and there are now similar clubs in Bradford,...
Category: Articles
Exeter
"About time, Private Medical Insurance that won't increase our premiums simply because we get older" When it comes to medical insurance, Exeter Friendly Society never penalise you with higher premiums simply because you get...
Category: Advertisement
Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
Category: Articles
Sibiria
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
The S.S. Spiral
The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched during a moderate N.W. breeze and heavy ground swell on the 20th March, in answer to signals of distress from the s.s. Spiral, of Christiania. The vessel had stranded on the rocks whilst bound from...
The S.S. Nebarn (1)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
The S.S. Ardgantock (1)
Yarmouth, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.1 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1954, the S.S.
Ardgantock, of Greenock, wirelessed that she was listing badly and was in danger of foundering twelve miles west-by-...