LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Deevale
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.14 p.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares and appeared to be ashore at South Ness. At 8.28 the lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth...
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
Category: Articles
Here and There
Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...
Category: Articles
John Douse
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the night.of the 11th November, 1877, it was reported that a vessel was ashore off Sandown.
It was then blowing a hurricane from the S., with thick rain. The Worcester Life-boat was taken...
Recent Services: The Lizard and Stromness
LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...
Category: Services
Best Wreck Service
The Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1966/67 to the Belhelvie and Collieston Coastguard Rescue Companies for their rescue of six men by breeches buoy...
Category: Awards
Irb Launches on Service During the Months December 1970, January and February, 1971
Broughty Ferry, Angus Conway, Caernarvonshire Criccieth, Caernarvonshire Eastney, Hampshire Eastney, Hampshire (18-005) Flint, Flintshire Hastings, Sussex Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Lymington, Hampshire Lytham-St....
Category: Services
Radiant Morn
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 5 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of February, 1949, information Was received that the motor trawler Radiant Morn, of Port Oriel, which had a crew of four, was making distress signals and burn- ing flares,...
Town & Country Driveways
Driveways that create a lasting impression Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
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