LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teviotdale
CARMARTHEN BAY.—A vessel having been reported ashore on Cefn Sidan sands during a heavy gale from the N.W. on the 16th October, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 3.15 A.M., and proceeded through a dangerously heavy sea to the...
Main Picture: Rs Bergen Kreds at Stavanger
Main picture: RS Bergen Kreds at Stavanger~ the commanding view frnm lite wheelhouse in particularly marked.. - View image in PDF
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Main Photo: the Stornoway-Based Coastguard Helicopter
Main photo: The Stornoway-based Coastguard helicopter exercises with Barra lifeboat - photo John Booth HMCG Barra.. - View image in PDF
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Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths.
Lt Cdr David Streatfield Former Aylesbury & District chairman, on 28 March.
Norman Jefferies Sherborne and District honorary treasurer and...
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Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.50 on the night of the 24th of August, 1957, the Hartland Point coastguard reported by telephone that a young man, who had set out at 2.30 in the afternoon to walk from Clovelly to Hartland along the beach, was missing....
Ira
Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...
The S.S. Esther Maria
Falmouth, Cornwall. — Just before 6.30 A.M. on the morning of the 5th August, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, but there was a thick fog. The tide...
Audentia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.
Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she...
An American Tank Landing Craft
OCTOBER 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Late in the afternoon an American tank landing craft, manned by about a dozen British naval men, had got into difficulties off the Chesil Beach in a heavy south-west gale, with a very rough...
A R.A.F. Dinghy
'Abandoned' airman retrieved from dinghy Cullercoats East Division Lifeboats and helicopters are frequent partners in rescue missions, so there was nothing unusual in Cullercoat's C class inflatable working with a helicopter crew...