LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
Trinity House by J. GROSVENOR (Staples Press, 15/-.) is a factual and ably written account of the work of the great organisation which received its charter in 1514 and which today is responsible for so many essential services, including the...
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Obituary
IT is with the deepest regret that we have to record the death of Lieut.- Augustus Philip Clayton, of Coombe Colonel Sir FitzRoy Augustus Talbot Bank, Kent. He was educated at Clayton, K.C.V.O., which took place i Eton and served in the...
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Linnet
SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...
Taki
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....
Boree
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
Collach, of Coll
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Forever by the Sea
RNLI Forever by the Sea funds are a positive and powerful way to honour the life of someone special who has passed away. By setting up a fund in the name of your loved one, you can give practical support for courageous volunteer lifeboat...
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