LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Rowing Boat
During a strong W.S.W. breeze with heavy sea on the 12th August, a man put off in a small rowing-boat, but got into diffi- culties, and was seen drifting with the tide rapidly towards the Gorton Sands.
His signals of...
A Boat (4)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 6.30 p.m. on loth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been sighted in difficulties 150 yards off shore. The honorary secretary and the mechanic used the...
Renown
At 11 A.M. on the 25th February, during a strong N.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Renown, of Girvan, was seen returning from the fishing-grounds. As the sea was heavy and the bar was very bad, it was thought advisable to launch the Life- boat...
A Life-Boat Tale
Sound Services Ltd., Merton Park, London, who handle films for the R.N.L.I., said last year that following the loan of the film Part Time Heroes to Woodridge Junior Middle and Infants' School, Southover, North Finchley, London, they...
Category: Articles
At the Irish International Boat Show In Dublin Last March Lieut- Colonel Brian Clark National Organiser Ireland Congratulated the Lagan Valley Round Table Team O
At the Irish International Boat Show in Dublin last March, Lieut.- Colonel Brian Clark, national organiser, Ireland, congratulated the Lagan Valley Round Table Team on their successful Round Ireland Trip, during which they visited all Irish... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
Category: Articles
Killed on Active Service
IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.
Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Dinghy
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Silver Quest
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
A Small Boat the Nellie
During the morning of the 26th May two men went off in their yawl, the Diano, to fish in St. Andrews Bay. A strong S.E.
gale came up about 11 A.M., and the men were unable to get their boat into harbour. As the sea was very...