LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The King and The Life-Boat Service. - View image in PDF

Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.

a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...

THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.

At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...

Mrs Manby and Some of Her Scarf-Helmets. - View image in PDF

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1952, the life-boat head launcher reported that the seas were very heavy on the harbour bar, making the conditions bad for returning fishing cobles. Four cobles were at...

TOW FOR BOAT FROM SURVEY SHIP Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares three-quarters of a mile off...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd January 10.

Arbroath, Angus January 4.

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland December 10.

Blackpool, (1)1171, Lancashire February 19.

Blackpool, (D528),...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 17, 25 and July 22 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 1, 2, 17, 20, 26, July 2, 8, 20, August 5, 16, 24, 25 and 27 Aberystwyth, Dyfed June 3, 17, July 30 and August 2 Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 26 Amble, Northumberland June 24 and...