LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beeleigh
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 4.35 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Helford river area. At 5.10,when the life-boat Crawford and Con- stance Conybeare slipped...
New Life-Boats Named In Norfolk and Devon
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...
Category: Inaugurations
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PILOT BALED OUT Workington, Cumberland. At 1.48 p.m. on 22nd July, 1965, the Workington coastguard was told by the coastguard at Formby that the pilot of a Lightning aircraft had baled out twelve miles west of St. Bees Head. At 2.6 the...
A Yacht and a Punt
While the honorary secretary was completing his records of the above service his attention was drawn to a small yacht with three youths on board, in difficulties half a mile off shore. At 1.13 p.m. the IRB launched and took the three youths...
Farringay
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.15 a.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the m.v. Farringay was reported by the coastguard to have broken down twenty miles west of South Stack lighthouse. She did not require immediate assistance. At 8.50 the honorary...
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RESCUES OF BOYS CUT OFF BY TIDE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Huntcliffe, Saltburn, and that a speed boat was...
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SICK BABY BROUGHT FROM SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.22 on the night of Monday the 9th September, 1963, the St. John Ambulance Island Commissioner asked if the life-boat could take a seriously ill 22-monthold baby from Sark. The...
Joan and Mary, and Trump
ESCORT FOR FOUR At 9.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four fishing cobles were at sea and that the weather was rapidly deteriorating. There was a near gale from the east-south-east with a...
Great Old Lady
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pactolus
JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...