LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Seafire Aircraft (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
Rabbit
Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized and her crew of two were in the water one mile off Birchington. Ten minutes...
An Inflatable Canoe
LIFE-BOAT AND SPEED BOAT PUT OUT TO CANOEISTS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an inflatable canoe was drifting out to sea off Jaywick. The life-boat...
Economy
On the 17th of November, 1962, the Seaham life-boat was launched to the help of the fishing vessel Economy and on returning to her station she capsized with the loss of her crew of five and four people whom she had taken off the Economy. A...
Bountiful
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AGROUND Lerwick, Shetlands. At 11.45 on the night of the 3rd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Bountiful was ashore on the east side of Shetland Isle....
Arthur Albright
ROUGH PASSAGE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.50 p.m. on 26th November, 1963, the medical officer for the port of Penzance and Mount's Bay area informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Arthur Albright, expected in the area at 4.10,...
A Rubber Dinghy
DUTCHMEN IN DINGHY Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, five Dutch fishermen left Ballycotton harbour in a rubber dinghy to return to their ship which was anchored with twelve other Dutch trawlers in Ballycotton Bay....
Plymouth's Round House After
Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below Left - Minehead Guild
Below left - Minehead guild commissioned this display in conjunction with Minehead town council parks who arranged the plot on one of the main approaches into the town. The display also featured in the Britain in Bloom competition in which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gluckauf
FEB. 9TH - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
The German steamer Gluckauf, of Rostock, had struck the submerged wreck of the Katina Bulgaris, which had sunk the day before, but her crew were saved by the Norwegian steamer Nayland. -...