LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newbiggin, and Blyth, Northumberland.— About half past ten in the morning, on the 9th of November, 1949, it was decided to launch the Newbiggin life- boat as several local fishing cobles were out and" a strong south-south-easterly...

Newbiggin, and Blyth, Northumberland.— About half past ten in the morning, on the 9th of November, 1949, it was decided to launch the Newbiggin life- boat as several local fishing cobles were out and" a strong south-south-easterly...

TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 7.45 p.m. on i3th October, 1963, the gardai told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Bray Head. As the information was not definite the honorary secretary rang various...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.9 on the night of 21st April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been reported to have left Cowes pontoon in an 8-ft. pram dinghy for their ship in Cowes Roads, and there...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 19th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that parachute flares had been reported seven to ten miles west-north-west of Rhyl. There was...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...

AT a final meeting of the committee and representatives of the subscribers to the Mayor of Swansea's 1947 Mumbles Life-boat Disaster Fund, which was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on the 4th of June, a scheme was approved for the...

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