LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Seafire Aircraft (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
Widgeon
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.27 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1951, the Mid-Barrow Lightvessel reported that the cabin cruiser Wid- geon, of Ramsgate, which had broken her rudder, was tied up astern of the lightvessel and in need of...
For Quiet Nights
Four people in Leeds, two husbands and wives, sent the Instititution a pound in July 1941. It was a penny from each of them in gratitude for each night that they had had free from air-raids. They continued that thankoffering for every quiet...
Category: Articles
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
Daily Express
DAILY EXPRESS I N T E R N A T O N A 23rd 1989 *? ' -a* Following its highly successful debut ID Plymouth, the Daily Express West of England Boat Show has moved lo the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order (o expand the market for...
Category: Advertisement
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...
Category: Articles
James B. Graham, of Hartlepool
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a flare was seen, and was...
Franklin Mint Limited,
From the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (USA) - THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE fe* Collector's Edition.
Handsomely Engraved.
Created by World-Renowned Wildlife Artist Rick Fields...
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Highland Chief, of London & Tavestock, of Plymouth
Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...