LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venturess
RED FLARE At 10.35 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary's wife informed the honorary secretary that she had seen a red flare in the direction of the bay. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at ii o'clock in a...
Fishing Vessels
This Life-boat also performed important service on the 31st August. On that day a sudden gale from the N.N.W. was severely felt at all the northern stations. At day- light a considerable number of fishing craft were observed to be making for...
Gleneden (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
William Cale and Motor Fishing Boat Delight
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller...
Into the surf
RESCUE6When three teenage girls got trapped in a gulley at the base of cliffs in Caerfai Bay on 5 August, their lives were very much in danger. St Davids’ eponymous D class Saint David Dewi Sant was launched but couldn’t get close enough due...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. F. Jellico, Hon. Secretary, Port of Liverpool Branch
ME. J. F. JELLICO, the Honorary Secre- tary of the Port of Liverpool Branch, died early in August after a long illness.
He was in his sixty-ninth year. Mr.
Jelliro had been the Honorary Secretary (f that...
Category: Obituaries
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Boats
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A fleet of twenty yawls, engaged in flounder fishing in St. Andrew's Bay, left Broughty Ferry between seven and eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th March, the weather being fine with a moderate breeze from...
Gustave
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Fishing Cobles (1)
FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 7 A.M., on the 29th January, the fishing cobles, twentyeight in number, put to sea. At 10 o'clock the wind began to freshen, increasing to a gale from E.N.E. accompanied by a rough sea and showers of rain and snow....