LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (7)
FEBRUARY 15TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 10.50 A.M. information was received from the Chapel St. Leonard’s coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two miles east of the look-out. A light S.W. wind was blowing,...
Angler's Luck (1)
Eastbourne, and Newhaven, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 27th of September; 1953, during thick fog, a steamer wirelessed that the motor boat Angler's Luck, with a crew of two, three miles off Beachy Head had asked her...
Sagacity
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. As the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was returning to her station at about 2.55 P.M. after an unsuccessful search for an aeroplane she heard two loud explosions, and on reaching Spurn Point she...
Gwen
At 2.20 p.m. on 3rd December, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Gwen with two men on board, which had sailed from Maryport at noon the previous day bound for Workington, had not arrived. At 2.30...
R. W. Parry
GKIMSBY.—A telegram having been received reporting a vessel in distress, the Life-boat Manchester Unity put off at about 9.45 A.M. on the 13th October, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea. She proceeded down the Humber under sail, and...
Contest, of Guernsey
On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...
Luigi Accame, of Genoa
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.55 P.M.
on the 6th April the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore threequartersthreequarters of a mile west of St. Catherine's Point. She was the Italian Luigi Accame, of Genoa,...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 528 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: BARBARA...
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To Mark the Retirement of John Owen Who Had Been Honorary Secretary of Rhyl for 25 Years Following 22 Years Previous Service Rhyl Motor Mechanic Peter Adams
To mark the retirement of John Owen, who had been honorary secretary of Rhyl for 25 years following 22 years previous service, Rhyl motor mechanic, Peter Adams, named the model 48' 6" Solent lifeboat he had made John M. Owen and put... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Category: Services