LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Royal Air Force Machine
Montrose, Angus. — 14th October, 1937. A Royal Air Force machine had crashed in Lunan Bay and sunk. One man was lost. The other was rescued by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £9 12*. 6
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy
TWO BOYS AND SAILING DINGHY SAVED Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.50 on the evening of Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the acting honorary secretary received a telephone call from a man at Donabate stating he was concerned for the safety of his son...
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Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.
She proceeded immediately in...
Peter MacDonald Fulton (1)
Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from...
Category: Obituaries
Barrule
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of...
Racing Dinghies
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the life-boat bowman was on the New Brighton landing-stage when a sailing dinghy taking part in a race capsized. He arranged for the life-boat to be...
West Coaster
WATERFORD. A W. by S. wind was OC T . 9 T H - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of London, which was in distress in...
Wilja and A Ship's Boat
MARCH 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
During the morning three men from the Dutch motor vessel Wilja, which was wind-bound in St. Ives Bay, left her in the ship’s boat to come into St. Ives, but were carried out to sea by the...
Fishing Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. — On the 12th January, the sea being rough and a strong breeze blowing from the S.E., it was feared that the fishing-boats would encounter difficulty in making the harbour, and it was therefore decided totake out...