LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (41)
JULY 6TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea in Aberffraw Bay, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards. £6 5s..
Maxim, of St. John's
DROGHEDA.—Shortly after midnight of the 25th September, the brigantine Maxim of St. John's, N.B., bound from Liverpool to St. John's, went ashore two miles north of Drogheda Bar. It was blowing hard at the time from E.S.E., with a...
The Fishing Boats- Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and Provider
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...
Provider and Elizabeth Isabel
Amble, Northumberland - At 7.35 a.m. on ist November, 1966, the cobles Provider and Elizabeth Isabel were still at sea with conditions at the harbour bar worsening in the ebb tide. The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 7.45....
Hero, of Maldon
On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...
French Award for Helicopter Pilot
The Societe Nationale des Hospital- iers Sauveteurs Bretons has awarded its silver medal for saving life with diploma to Sergeant E. C. Smith of the Royal Air Force for the rescue by helicopter of two of the crew of the trawler Jeanne Gougy...
Category: Awards
A Grand Finale
RNLI crew members from Brighton, Littlehampton and Poole took part in two displays at the last ever Royal Tournament at Earls Court on 22 July.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pippa
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At...
Emerald Isle
LYTHAM. — On the 22 nd September, during a 8. gale with thick rain squalls, a vessel was observed ashore on Salthouse Bank, and showing signals of distress.
The Life-boat was launched, and on arriving alongside found that...
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SICK BABY BROUGHT FROM SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.22 on the night of Monday the 9th September, 1963, the St. John Ambulance Island Commissioner asked if the life-boat could take a seriously ill 22-monthold baby from Sark. The...