LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cove and Kilcreggan Branch Flower Show
Finishing touches being made to the exhibits at Cove and Kilcreggan branch flower show. It is an annual event and is growing in popularity and size all the time. Last year's show, which was opened by the Reverend C. K. O. Spence,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Cakes Are Mrs Ann Martin's
Christmas cakes are Mrs Ann Martin's speciality and every year she bakes one and presents it as a raffle prize to Denis Morgan, honorary secretary of Shoreline club No 4 in Milton Keynes. So far £200 have been raised by her generous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain Barton Holmes a Retired Us Master
Captain Barton Holmes, a retired US master mariner living in Stolen Island, New York, is a good friend to Aberdeen lifeboat station. In each of the past eight or nine years he has made a model ship and donated it to the branch. His latest... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wittezee
NOVEMBER 12TH. - THE MUMBLES GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Wittezee, of Rotterdarn, stranded below Port Eynon Point. The life-boat went out at 9 A.M., three-quarters of an hour after she had returned from the service of the day...
Three Fishing Boats
On the 24th No- vember three fishing-boats were seen making for the harbour. The weather at the time was very stormy and a heavy sea was running on the Bar, through which it was feared they could not pass safely. The Albert Victor life-boat...
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
Golden Crown
Runswick, Yorkshire. — At eight o'clock on the morning of the 16th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Golden Crown, of Staithes, put to sea with a crew of three, including the life-boat coxswain, to haul crab and lobster pots, but during the...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.15 on the night of the 15th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man had fallen down a cliffside and was lying injured on Skrinkle beach. At 11.30 the life-boat C.D.E.C., on temporary...
The S.S. Naess Falcon
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson,...
A Boat from Delphic Eagle, of Monrovia
Hmnber, Yorkshire-At 4.13 p.m.
on 12th June, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat from the m.v. Delphic Eagle of Monrovia had broken adrift at the Bull anchorage. Further investigations were made and the...