LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 28th of July, 1948, the Tara coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat was ashore on Long Pladdy, Ballyquinton Point. There was no immediate danger, as the sea was calm and the...
Continental and Wansbeck
Cromer, Norfolk. At 5.35 on the morning of the 2nd of March, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Continental and the British ship Wans- beck had been in collision ten miles north-west-by-north of...
A Speed Boat (1)
OVERTURNED SPEEDBOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 3.15 p.m.
on 20th June, 1965, the life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station after a publicity launch when one of the crew saw an overturned...
A Motor Boat
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was stranded on a sandbank a mile and three quarters south-west of...
A Boat (2)
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At ir.io p.m. on I5th August, 1967, the Haulbowline Naval Centre informed the honorary secretary that a boat which had been shark fishing off Daunt Rock lightvessel was overdue. At 11.25 p.m. the life-boat Ethel Mary...
Life-Boat Days In 1944
In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat (5)
OCT . 4TH . - FLEETWOOD , A N D LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A motor fishing boat, with two on board, was, long overdue. A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. Both life-boats searched all night, but found nothing, and it was...
Blue Peter III Reaches the 'Casualty' Crew Member Ted Hill Who Has (Uncharacteristically) Overturned His Dinghy (Above) Ted 'Exhausted' Is Taken Aboard the Ilb Whil
. . Blue Peter III reaches the 'casualty', Crew Member Ted Hill who has (uncharacteristically) overturned his dinghy. (Above) Ted, exhausted', is taken aboard the ILB while Graham Thorburn and Paddy Hooton, helped by this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Triple Jack
Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two miles north north...
Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...