LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1998 Aberdeen Arun; Jul 4, 25 and 26 D Class: Jun 29. Jul 4 (twice), Jul 14 and 26 Abersoch Atlantic 21; Jun 9, Jul 18, 20 and 23 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75 Jun 9. 14 (twice), 20, 21 and...
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Launches
Aberdeen ON-1248 (17-24): Apr12.Api23, MaylS May31 0-536: Apr12. Apr14. Apr23, Apr24.
Mayl 3 Abetdovey B-758: Mar3D. Mar31. May6(x2), MaylS. May25 Abersoch B-582: MayS. MayS. May16 Abarystwyth B-704: Mar27. Apr21. Mayl....
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Launches
a ABERDEEN ON-124B(l7-24):Aug13, Aug 19 D-53&Aug9 ABERDOVEY B-758:Aug4,AugZ4.Aug26 ABERSOCH 8-582: Aug 3, Aug 26, Aug 29 ABERYSTWYTH B-704: Aug 4. Aug 1 7(x2), Aug 20{x2). Aug 22, Aug 24. Aug 30 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1228 (14-24): Aug 14, Aug...
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Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24): Aug 4. 23(x2) D-S36:Augl1(x2).23.30 ABERDOVEY B-TSfc Jul IS, 20,21.27: Aug2,ai1,1S,22,23,24(x3), ABERSOCH B-790; Jul 14, 20, 26; Aug 3. 4. S(x2), 7.
11.12.15.25,27 ABERYSTWYTH B-70* Jul 7,9, 10(x2)....
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Review. "The Story of the Sea: The Sea, Its History and Romance." By Frank C. Bowen (Halton and Truscott Smith. Vol. I. 15s. Net)
MB. BOWEN has performed a public ser- vice in writing this book, which sets forth in a straightforward, and at times almost prosaic, way the romantic history of the sea and its ships. We use the word " prosaic " advisedly, for what...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
The S.S. Domingo de Larrinaga (1)
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...
An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
An Ex-R.A.F. Boat and a Motor Fishing Vessel
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...
Daisy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties to the east of the harbour entrance. Five minutes later the life-boat...