LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Cliff Rescue:
Cliff rescue: Just as Torbay lifeboat crew, together with the honorary secretary, were embarking on the 54ft Arun lifeboat Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), at 1445 on Sunday May 24, for exercise and to take part in the annual Blessing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ubari
Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — On the afternoon of the 21st January a report was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a small steamer was ashore on the Nore Sands. A very squally wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
A Fishing Boat
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 5.30 a.m. on 22nd April, 1967, a report was received that a fishing boat was leaking and in danger off Strangford bar.
The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was launched at 5.45 in a light south...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the police at Portmadoc told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy in difficulties at Portmadoc estuary was being swept out to sea on the ebb tide. The coastguard...
Bronze Medallists:
Bronze medallists: (I to r) Dannie McKay of Wick; he saved three men and their coble among rocks in a gale (full report: THE LIFEBOAT, winter '84185); David Clemence of llfracombe who pulled a yacht and her terrified occupant from rocks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Look Out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January
Look out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January - the second national BBC TV documentary series to feature the work of the RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards in Devon and Cornwall. Viewers may remember last year's moving report of the death... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...