LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Equipment—From the Boat Show
FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
Category: Articles
An Ex-R.A.F. Boat and a Motor Fishing Vessel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 26th of December, 1951, the Tenby coastguard telephoned the Tenby life-boat station that the Helwick Lightvessel had reported that an ex-R.A.F. boat, which...
Ann Grace
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
The Gaff Cutter Jolie Brine
Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
Juno
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Signals of distress were shown at 11 A.M. on the 7th December by a yawl which was at anchor in Conway Bay during a whole gale from the W.S.W. The Christopher Brown Life-boat pnt off to her assistance, and brought safely...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! It you're considerin have noticed that almo? an outboard, whatever the size, you'll lanufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason tor...
Category: Advertisement
Volunteer and Sarah Davies
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
Glad Tidings
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off at 9 P.M. on the 17th May, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Glad Tidings, of Aberystwith, in ballast, which was in a dangerous position in the bay during a strong gale from the S.W....
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1883
ONCE again it becomes our duty to draw the attention of our friends to the sta- tistics published by the Board of Trade, relative to the wrecks occurring on our rock-bound shores. The Register, re- cently laid before the public, furnishes...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
The Princess was greeted...
Category: Inaugurations