LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Mottistone's Wireless Appeal
ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Crew at Stockport
THIS year marks the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the formation of the Stock- port crew of life-boat auxiliaries. In 1936 three young men were asked to collect on Stockport life-boat day. The following year they were asked again and with a...
Category: Donations
Provider (3)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
Trumpeter and The Ilfracombe of Milford Haven
SEPTEMBER 22ND and 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 10.30 at night on the 21st, a strong gale blew up and ten steam trawlers, at anchor in Kilronan Bay, dragged their anchors.
Two went on the rocks, one mile south-south-east of the...
Solent Swan and Oriana
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.
Then...
Lifeboat—In Danger's Hour'
THE RNLI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES contain thousands of lifeboat pictures which not only document the progress in boats and equipment but also provide an insight to changing social conditions.
The selection on these pages...
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Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—At about 10 A.M., on the 28th of January, five fishing cobles, which had left the harbour about six hours previously, were observed to be returning, the sea having risen considerably. As crossing the bar was, under the circumstances,...
The Austrian Schooner Nicolo
On the night of the 31st March, during a gale of wind from the N.W., the Princess of Wales life-boat went off in reply to a signal from the Austrian schooner Nicolo, which had stranded near Penial, Anglesea, to the assistance of some boatmen...