LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the LIFE-BOAT SATURDAY FUND and their officers, as well as the District and Local Life-boat Satur- day Committees throughout the country, are to be heartily congratulated on the success of their efforts during the...
Category: Articles
The Iron Barque Atlantic, of Swansea
In consequence of information brought into this port by the fishing smack Summer Cloud, at noon on the 12th April, the steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, and made for the Long Sand, a shoal at the entrance...
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
H.M.S. Vortigern (1)
MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.
The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...
News
In its 140th year of saving lives at sea, New Brighton lifeboat station saw a new arrival in October 2004. The inshore rescue hovercraft, to be named Hurley Spirit, will play a vital role in the RNLI's lifesaving operations on the...
Category: Articles
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
Past and Present
25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...
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Life-Saving on the Shannon continued from page 6
An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
Category: Articles
Ensimainen
PALLING.—On the 29th December, at 2 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the North Float light-ship, in reply to guns fired from that vessel.
On arrival it was found that the master and his wife, and the crew of...
Blanche Maguerite, of Dundalk
Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...