LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (12)
DEC. 4TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
An explosion had been seen five miles away, but the life-boat found no survivors, although she picked up a quantity of wreckage which she landed at the Custom House. - Rewards, £20...
A Flying Boat (1)
OCTOBER 29TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS, AND THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A British flying boat had crashed as her petrol was exhausted, but two trawlers rescued her crew. - Rewards : Longhope, £24 11s. 6d. ; Thurso, £20 19s...
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...
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Rnli News
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
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A Converted Ship's Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been keeping a converted ship's boat under observation for some time as she was...
A Small Boat (3)
St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly.—29th September.
Anxiety was felt for a man out in a small boat in a thick fog, but he had landed on Bryher.—Rewards, £18 13s. 6d..
A Motor Boat (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...
A Speed Boat
DECEMBER 2ND. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A speed boat engaged on R.A.F. work was reported to have caught fire and blown up, but later it was found that the report was incorrect. - Rewards, £23 4s..
A Rowing Boat
JUNE 29TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A small rowing boat had been reported missing, but could not be found. It was found abandoned in a cave on the following day. - Rewards, £13 16s. 9d..
A Fishing Boat (7)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but her anchor held and she sailed home on the following day. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £6 18s....