LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations
Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Morecambe, Lancashire - At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd December, 1966, the police were informed that a small boy angling from the shore was in difficulties...
Category: Services
Rosslare Harbour: A Correction
Under the picture of the Rosslare Harbour Life-boat Crew in the last issue it should have been stated that the photograph had been taken by Messrs. J. Barrett & Co., of Bannow, Go.
Wexford, and was reproduced by their...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (3)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight—26th May.
A small yacht had been reported in difficulties, but it was found that she did not need any help.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..
A Patrol Boat
DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
No news had been received from an R.A.F. launch which had put off to the help of a small patrol boat, but it was found that she had returned sometime before. - Rewards, £16...
None (11)
MARCH 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was learned later there had been a small moorland fire on the Sutherland coast across the Moray Firth.- Rewards, £...
A Fishing Boat
JANUARY 16TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A fishing boat was overdue as her engine had broken down ; but she was able to repair it and make harbour under her own power.
Rewards, £16 5s..
Aeroplanes (1)
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
It was thought that aeroplanes had collided and one was reported to have come down in flames, but nothing could be found . - Rewards : Clacton - on - Sea...
A Proud Life-Boat Collector
This is Punch, a Yorkshire terrier, owned by E G davis of Cock Hotel, Epping, with lifeboat collecting box, who spends his life collecting and can find money wherever it is hidden. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lighthouse Mission
FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.
Category: Services
Faith, Irene and Noel II
On 20th October several of the local fishing boats put out at three in the morning. A moderate N.E. gale came up, with a rough sea, and by 5.30 A.M. the weather was so bad that it was decided to launch the Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker...