LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...
A Dinghy
GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
A Boat
At 2.40 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Rocka- Nore. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 2.46 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was high...
A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
Category: Services
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized on the south side of the boom defence. At 4.20 the life-boat Greater London, II...
The Filey IRB Crew—An Irb Station Was Established There In 1966—Consists of a Bank Manager a Cafe Proprietor and a Joiner When This Photograph As Taken the Irb An
The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Argo
At about 11 P.M. on the 4th December, the alarm guns were fired, on account ofthe danger to a vessel, which, however, disappeared before any assistance could reach her. The Forester Life-boat went to the supposed position of the wrecked...
A Boat
The Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at 12.8 P.M. on the 14th September in response to a message from Prestatyn stating that a bathing-van attendant was drifting out to sea in an open boat, without oars, towards Rhyl. Immedi- ately...
A Boat and a Catamaran
Committee boat A RACE had been organised for dinghies at Blackpool Light Craft Club off Squires Gate on Saturday afternoon, June 13, 1981, but it was cancelled because of rising wind and sea. All the dinghies came ashore unaided but the...