LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bessie Gould
Just after the Motor Life-boat V.C.S. had returned from exercise on the 18th January, a vessel was seen to be drifting into the broken water on the North Tail with another vessel trying to help her. As it was clear that the other vessel...
Y.L.A. Section
A New Appointment MR. Alasdair Garrett has been appointed to promote the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association in the field and to start what, it is hoped, will be a big and successful drive to recruit new members. For some...
Category: Articles
A Small Rowing Boat
During a strong W.S.W. breeze with heavy sea on the 12th August, a man put off in a small rowing-boat, but got into diffi- culties, and was seen drifting with the tide rapidly towards the Gorton Sands.
His signals of...
Pyrene Co. Ltd
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Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I.
crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure...
Category: Advertisement
Yacht Alethea II
At 8.10 P.M. on the 30th August the coast- guard at Totland telephoned that a small yacht was burning red flares near Elbow Buoy. A fresh S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat...
Garlingstone
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.50 A.M.
on the 16th March the Civic Guard telephoned that a man had reported a sailing vessel in difficulties in Ballycroneen Bay. A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea...
Longhope Memorial Unveiled
A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (99)
JULY 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 8 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down in the sea E. by S. eleven and a half miles from Cromer. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was...
Met Together at Poole for the DOS's Conference: (I to R) Kenneth Thirlwell Manager Northern Appeals Depot; George Price East; Basil Hutchinson West Midlands; Pat W
Met together at Poolefor the DOS's conference: (I. to r.) Kenneth Thirlwell, manager Northern Appeals Depot; George Price, East; Basil Hutchinson, West Midlands; Pat Whittaker, North East; Glyn Williams, Wales; Peter Sturdee, South West;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pax
YOUGHAL, co. CORK.—On the morning of the 16th July, the barque Pax, of Liverpool, outward bound with a general cargo, stranded about half a mile north of Knockadoon Head, having lost some of her sails, while a moderate gale was blowing from...