LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch and a Cabin Cruiser
ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin...
Lulu
YACHT IN HEAVY WEATHER OFF NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 6.46 a.m.
on Monday the 26th August, 1963, the Needles coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht approximately one mile west of the Brook look-out...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them...
A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Gloves - £7 Dry Suit - £245 First Aid kit - £245 Lifejacket-£182 Compass - £248 Radio - £535 And how. would Sir like to pay? A Lifeboats MasterCard will do nicely.
Because if you switch from...
Category: Advertisement
Royal Blue to the Rescue
THE following report is reproduced from Stage Coach, the magazine of General Western National, Royal Blue, Devon and Greenslades coaches.
'To be able to answer an urgent call for assistance from an organisation which is...
Category: Correspondence
Getting the Message
The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Greyfriars
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January a message was received from Flamborough Head signal station that a vessel in Selwick Bay was sounding SOS. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The weather was...
Monte Gurugu (2)
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Golden Crown
Runswick, Yorkshire. — At eight o'clock on the morning of the 16th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Golden Crown, of Staithes, put to sea with a crew of three, including the life-boat coxswain, to haul crab and lobster pots, but during the...