LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Western Division MFV aground A RED FLARE fired over Barmouth Bar was seen by the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 2140 on Wednesday November 22, 1978. Just after he had alerted Coxswain Evan Jones, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (110)
JULY 28TH. - PORTIIDINLLAEN CAERNARVONSHIRE. A Hurricane aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 14s.
Success, Venus and Provider
APRIL 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning five fishing boats left to lift their crab pots. A N.E. wind of gale force got up with a rough sea and heavy rain, and two of the boats returned. As the weather grew...
The S.S. Atlantic Sea
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...
Sailing Dinghies
On the afternoon of the 20th of June.
1959, the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was on a routine exercise near Gettiswick Bay, Angle Point, when several sailing dingh- ies taking part in the Milford...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a...
Santa Lucia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the coastguards reported that a motor yacht was drifting out of control about five miles off Warden Point, one mile south of Red Sands Fort, and flying a flag from...
News
Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
Category: Articles
Below Kilmore Quay's
Below Kilmore Quay's mechanic. Brian Kehoe. - View image in PDF
keeps a sparkling boathouse. lifeboat and tractor which all face away from the sea.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At William Osborne's Yard Littlehampton on June 18 Mrs Renske Kemp Launched the 37' Rather Lifeboat Horace Clarkson the Gift of H Clarkson and Co to Be Stati
At William Osborne's yard, Littlehampton, on June 18, Mrs Renske Kemp launched the 37' Rather lifeboat Horace Clarkson, the gift of H. Clarkson and Co., to be stationed at Moelfre. With Mrs Kemp were (I. to r.) Mr and Mrs T. Owens,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs