LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.

At first this may come as no surprise, but between...

BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...

JULY 24TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. A Spitfire aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but disappeared without leaving any trace. Rewards, £9 6s. (See Llancrchynmor. “Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats,” page 68.).

Small boats in trouble Tenby - West Division Tenby's D class inflatable Charlie B was called to three small-boat casualties in two days during the late spring bank holiday when strong westerly winds reached Force 8. Two calls on one day...

Margate, Kent.—At 5.54 on the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin lightvessel had reported that a dinghy had drifted past her with an unidentified object hanging on its...

On 12th November, in response to signals of distress which were observed in the bay soon after 1 A.M., the Life-boat Mary Isabella put to sea, and, after a severe buffeting, found the sailing trawler Faithful, of Ramsey, with her tiller...

NOVEMBER 25TH . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 8.45 A.M. a loudexplosion was heard in the direction of the Chequer Shoal Buoy. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The naval authorities reported that H.M. motor launch...

Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...