LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fortunatus
The motor fishing boat Fortunatus went out fishing early in the morning of the 3rd May.
She had not returned by 9.30 A.M., and as a strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was rising and breaking at the harbour entrance...
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
Category: Advertisement
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