LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vellums Awarded to Three Men
AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.
Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....
Category: Awards
Wicklow Lifeboat Station Has a 42Ft Watson Class Lifeboat
Wicklow lifeboat station has a 42ft Watson class lifeboat and has launched on service eight times in 1986. The honorary secretary, Michael Jones (far r), a local chartered accountant and experienced yachtsman, will often receive calls for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (142)
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
In Retirement Services
Are you a homeowner over 70? Release tax-free Blease tree I cash from your home If you are a homeowner aged over 70 (both over 70 if a couple) you may be able to release some of the money locked in your home to do the things you...
Category: Advertisement
New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
Feature: Swiftwater Rescue
Although the RNLI's main purpose is saving lives at sea, it also has the people and equipment available to make a difference in flash floods. As reported in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, members of the Workington lifeboat crew...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of France
ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.
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Category: Articles
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Kirton
At 1.20 A.M. on the 23rd April the Coast- guard reported that a vessel was ashore in Woodston Bay, four miles south of Johnshaven. The crew of the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden were quickly assem- bled, and the boat left for the wreck, which...