LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (89)
DECEMBER 18TH. - BEAUMARIS ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was found to have crashed on land. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £15 ; Llandudno, £35 0S....
The Yachtsmen's Life-Boat Supporters' Association By Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE PERSISTENCE AND DEDICATION which RNLI supporters have shown in a period of exceptional financial stringency give, at the time of going to press, reasonable grounds for optimism about the financial results in 1976. Encouraging support has...
Category: Articles
Niels
BROUGHTY FERRY, N.B.—It was reported, about 5 P.M. on the 4th March, that a schooner had gone ashore on the Lady Bank, and when she could 'be seen through the snow and drift, which was only at intervals, she appeared to be partially...
Babioli
Fowey, Cornwall. On the llth July, 1961, the life-boat Deneys Reitz had returned after escorting the dinghies Shellduck and Lapwing to safety when it was learnt that the two dinghies were now making for a dismasted dinghy on the rocks near...
Shy Girl
Margate, Kent - At 5.40 p.m. on i4th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare off Nayland rocks. The IRB was launched to investigate and report.
Two red flares fired by the IRB were seen shortly afterwards. The...
Two Punts
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 12.20 p.m.
on 6th June, 1967, while the life-boat A.M.T. was on passage from Malahide to Howth, the coxswain saw two punts about half a mile away. There was a fresh wind and a choppy sea. It was one...
Nell and Jess
At 6.25 A.M. on the 29th December the watchman re- ported that the Lightship off Newhaven was firing distress signals; the Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was there- fore dispatched. It was blowing a strong N.N.W. gale at the time, and...
Fishing Boats
At 6 A.M. on the 9th January, in smooth but thick weather, the fishing-boats of Johnshaven put to sea. An hour or so later the sea commenced to rise and the S.E. wind increased to a gale, and by 10 o'clock it was so rough that it was...