LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (64)
AUGUST 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.27 P.M. the coastguard reported that a British aeroplane had crashed, and the Belgian motor life-boat Ministre Anseele, from the reserve fleet, on temporary duty at the station, was...
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Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a little girl cut off by the tide in Coverack Bay. A small boat went out but failed to find her.
The Life-Boat's Crew
Adapted by THOMAS GBAY (1868), from the " Heart of Oak," by DAVID GAEEICK (1759). if-uar- — — . -j. 7 - -m-'-m- res ! see ! they are off, though dear friends bid them stay, 5rave boat, 'neath their still braver hearts...
Category: Songs
Starting Them Young
I am sending you this photo of my grandson Liam and the members of the Craster lifeboat hoping you can print it in the magazine, as Liam is a member of Storm Force (the RNLI's club for children). Liam's daddy, Ben, had a collection... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Handy, of Wexford
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
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GIRLS RESCUED Ilfracombe, Devon. At 7.55 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the police reported that two girls, missing from Lee Bay, were believed to be trying to walk to Ilfracombe around the rocks. A helicopter was airborne and at 8.10 the...
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ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1945, a man was cut off by the tide at Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. A marine told 73-year-old Mr.
C. Galliver, and the two men put out in a rowing boat. A fresh...
Category: Services
J.A.P.
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.30 a.m. on 30th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the trawler J.A.P. of Lowestoft was aground on the sandbank off the harbour entrance and had sent a distress signal. The drifter Wisemans had gone to her...
Artic Stream
— During a terrific S.E. gale on the 22nd February, the ship Arctic Stream, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked between Cresswell and New- biggin. She was bound at the time from Leith to the Tyne in ballast. The Life-boats Ada Lewis, of...
Water Gipsy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in...