LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—-On the afternoon of the 23rd March the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat had broken down one mile south of Southbourne coastguard station, and that another motor boat, which had put out from Bournemouth to help her,...
Maude
During a strong gale on the 6th August, the yacht Maude, of Glasgow, was observed flying a signal of distress while at anchor, and the Lite-boat Christopher Brown at once pro- ceeded to her. Having anchored to O windward, the Life-boat was...
Fishing Boats
ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—On the 29th January at 6 P.M. information was received that the fishing fleet was making for the harbour, and that in the prevailing weather—a strong S.S.E.
gale and very heavy sea—their coming in...
Mr. Henry Fargus
Mr. Henry Fargus died on 26th April at the age of 77. He was for many years a partner in the firm of Messrs.
Clayton, Sons and Fargus, the Institution's solicitors, and was the member of the firm who dealt with the...
Category: Obituaries
Kerry
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th September, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the assistant honorary secietary that a small yacht was making distress signals off Warden Ledge buoy in the West Solent. At...
October
Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
Category: Services
New Boat-House for Rhyl
THE new life-boat house at Rhyl was formally opened by the Countess Howe at a ceremony on the 27th of June, 1956. Lord Langford, vice-president of the Rhyl branch, wras in the chair.
Earl Howe, Chairman of the Commit- tee...
Category: Inaugurations
A Fishing Coble
On the morning of the 4th December, the same Life-boat brought safely to land a fishing coble and her crew of four men, who had been caught in a gale from the E.S.E., and were in much peril..
Fairlie and Jane
On the 27th September, at 3.30 A.M., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaumaris, bound from Dublin from Llanaelhaiarn in ballast, during a strong gale from the W.S.W., the Thomas Fielden Lifeboat put...
One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,
When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs