LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lilian
Hoylake, Cheshire. — Early in the morning of the 18th of March, 1952, the motor fishing boat Lilian, with the life-boat coxswain and another man on board, put to sea. She did not return and at five o'clock the Formby coastguard...
Advice to Yachtsmen
[The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter are used for sea rescue work around the coasts of the United...
Category: Articles
Niblick (1)
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Rotarians Celebrate: the Nine Rotary Clubs of West Glamorgan
Rotarians celebrate: the nine Rotary clubs of West Glamorgan came together for a presentation dinner at University College, Swansea, after they had raised a remarkable £25,050 for The Mumbles lifeboat appeal in a grand prize draw. Cliff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....
Rescued When Clinging to the Mast
AT 6.20 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, Mr. A. J. Tart, the honor- ary secretary of the Dungeness station, was told by Lade coastguard that the German vessel Erfurt had reported seeing a small boat showing a red light about ten and a...
Category: Services
Strathmartin
Lerwick, Shetlands.—Early in the evening of the 18th February it was learned that the steam trawler Strathmartin, of Aberdeen, was ashore on Loofa Baa shoal, in the harbour.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea....
Boy's Own, Speedwell and Cluaran
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About noon on the 8th of November, 1948, several of the fishing boats returned to harbour. The north- westerly breeze was light, but there was a very heavy swell at the harbour entrance, and they had...
An R.A.F. Rescue Launch
DECEMBER 29TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 11.45 A.M. a telephone message was received from the naval authorities asking for the life-boat to stand by, as an R.A.F. rescue launch had gone to sea and found the weather too heavy...
A Boat (Fomer Naval Pinnace)
MAY 1ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At eight in the evening the St. Abbs Head signal station telephoned that a boat was apparently stationary about ten miles westnorth- west of St. Abbs Head. The weather was fine, but as the...