LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
Category: Articles
1122 and a Yacht.
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a motor vessel, which was.
towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought to have ropes entangled in...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
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Ada
BOAT FOUND AFTER ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Workington, Cumberland. At 9.10 on the evening of the 15th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ada was overdue and asked for the life-boat to stand by. At 9.21...
Lydia Ann
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. About eight o'clock in the morning of the 7th of November, 1951, with a rough sea running and a south-easterly breeze blowing, the life-boat motor mechanic was on the lookout on Helvick Head and saw the motor...
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...
Windsor Lad, Kathleen, and John and Nancy
SE P T E M B E R 2 8 T H . - F I L E Y , Y O R K - SHIRE. The fishing fleet, had put to sea as usual. The northerly wind was increasing; the sea was getting rough ; three of the boats turned back ; and at 9.20 in the morning the motor...
Valerie and Miranda
Caister, Norfolk.—About noon on the 29th of July, 1957, a small boat was seen from the boathouse to be flying a distress flag. She was towing a larger vessel and appeared to be mak- ing little progress north of the north- west Scroby buoy....
HERE and THERE.
Frances Scott, honorary secretary of the Bournemouth branch, sailed to Swanage in his yacht Eulali to attend that station's centenary. On the return passage, when entering Poole Harbour, he saw a 14' skiff, Addio, which had capsized,...
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Joy
MECHANIC SEES FLARE FROM MOTOR BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 5.6 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1962, the motor mechanic noticed a red flare four miles south of the life-boat station.
He informed the honorary secretary,...