LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Boats White Lady & True Vine
The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched at 9.55 A.M. on the 24th December, as a fisherman had repo'rted that the motor fishing boat White Lady appeared to be in need of help. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a...
Bohemian Girl and Prefect
Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...
Fulmar
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, a report was received that the local lobster boat Fulmar was at anchor in Huip Sound but that she was in danger of sinking, as there was a very rough sea...
Heron
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the evening of the llth of September, 1950, a resi- dent informed the coastguard that a man in Southwold had reported a yacht in need of help, quarter of a mile north of Southwold pier. At 5.34 the coast- guard...
Forward
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband and two others had put out in the fishing boat Forward, of Beaumaris, at one o'clock the...
A Canoe
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. On the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the life-boat Rachael and Mary Evans was launched on exercise, and at 1.45 a canoe taking part in a race from Barry Dock to Weston-super-Mare was seen to capsize one...
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate...
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MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a small vessel was in distress off the South Stack. A squally south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D...
Awards Presented at the Royal Festival Hall
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded ten Bars to the Gold Badge and forty-eight Gold Badges.
BAR TO THE GOLD BADGE Mrs Margaret Driscoll Burnmouth Branch: Honorary...
Category: Awards
Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs