LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Einnan
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 24th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the wife of a salmon fisherman at Machrihanish that a yacht was dragging her anchor in...
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Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
Handy, of Wexford
The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
Category: Services
Helmsman John Foster
Helmsman John Foster Ki'teiU'd the Hriiii/L1 Modal lor his ' ..course, yre.il prevenci' nt" mind.
claniv »l ihouiihi. s k i l l u l seamanship...' during the rescue of three people from an .iii... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eight-Year-Old Michael Summerfied
Eight-year-old Michael Summerfied warms himself with a blanket as he comes ashore after being rescued from his parent's yacht by Whitstable lifeboat - photo Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Marjofie Berry Falmouth guild president Hugh Bryan Chew Valley branch former chairman Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) Andrew Forbes Former...
Category: Obituaries
New Ways of Raising Money
Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
Category: Donations
Miss Agnes Hilhouse,
Miss Agnes Hilhouse, for many years treasurer of the West Drayton and Uxbridge branch with which she had been associated for 25 years..
Category: Obituaries
Wolverhampton (Left)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs