LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boulmer Naming Ceremony
The Right Hon. the Viscount Runciman, P.C., and the Duchess of Northumberland. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
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Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.
At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...
Christmas Festivities
LAST Christmas a number of life-boats again took out Christmas parcels from their towns to men on neighbouring lightships. The Weymouth life-boat took them to the Shambles, Selsey to the Owers, Barry Dock to the Breaksea, Margate to the...
Category: Articles
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...
A Yacht
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 6.24 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was on the rocks at Orlock Head. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put out at 6.35 in a slight sea. There was a...
Crescence
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 11.35 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secietary that the motor vessel Crescence of Rochester was aground off the old pier buoy in St. Ives Bay. At 11.42 the life-boat...
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Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the...
Seddon (1)
Stornoway, Hebrides. On the 11th of April, 1958, the agents for the trawler Seddon, which had stranded in Storno- way harbour on the 8th of April, wanted to run a kedge anchor out from her and asked if the life-boat would undertake this...
Primula
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Primula of Peterhead was ashore in Burnhaven Bay. At 3.15 the life-boat Julia Park Barry...
A Dinghy (3)
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.20 p.m.
on 5th July, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell, which was on a publicity launch with several passengers on board, noticed that a small dinghy with a crew of two was...