LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolute
JANUARY 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.42 A.M. the coastguard reported that a sailing barge had struck a mine to the S. by E., three quarters of a mile from Holland look-out hut, and had blown up. A light S.W. breeze was blowing...
Flip
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 10.15 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the motor launch Flip, with a crew of two, was overdue from a fishing trip believed to be in the vicinity of the Barrel rocks. The...
Meirig Glyn Davies Mbe.
August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....
Category: Obituaries
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LIFE-BOAT TOWED BULLOCK At 3.50 p.m. on 2ist November, 1965, a farmer informed the coxswain that a bullock had fallen over the cliff at East Pickard Bay and asked for the life-boat's assistance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary...
Ceres
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. On the 22nd November, at about 8 P.M., signals of distress were seen off Porthoustock. The Life-boat Mary Ann Story was immediately launched and proceeded to the wreck, reaching the Manacles Rocks at about 8.30. The...
Chums (1)
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The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
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X boat used stranded on in rescue of youths rockLifeboat services are not always in heavy weather and not always to professional or amateur mariners, as a service by Douglas's Tyne this summer illustrated.
On a fine but...
Functional Clothing Ltd
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A Dinghy (4)
HELICOPTER FOUND THEM At 12.15 a.m. on 8th August, 1964, a local resident told the honorary secretary that he was anxious about the safety of a friend and his son who were fishing in a small dinghy. They had been out since 6 p.m. the...