LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...
Category: Services
Lea Rig, Fisherboy and Crest
JAN. 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Four seine net fishing boats- Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crestwere overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso. The motor...
Lady Norton, Mbe Centrallondon
Lady Norton, Mbe Central London. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Major Peter Critchley MBE
Major Peter Critchley MBE - Former Camberley branch Box Secretary and street collection organiser.
Category: Obituaries
Sheenways
Ramsgate, Kent. At fHe o'clock on the afternoon of tk~ ^Oth of October, 1957, the DPS' coastguard telephoned to SP3' tiie police had reported red flares off Ramsgate harbour. At 5.3 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out...
Saving Life from Shipwreck In Denmark
THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...
Category: Articles
Two Motor Boats
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 11.24 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1959, the coxswain was informed that two boats, which were drifting towards Dinas Head, appeared to be in diffi- culties as their occupants were waving frantically. The...
Lady of Portnablagh
Shortly before Sam on Saturday, 10 March, both Lough Swilly lifeboats were called to rescue a burning fishing vessel. Mulroy Coastguard also launched and rescued the skipper, who had abandoned the burning vessel and was in a liferaft. He was...
Mount Ida
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the 9th October, 1939, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey rescued the crew of twentynine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, of Piraeus, which had grounded on the Ower Bank. The No. 2 motor life-boat Harriot Dixon was...
John and Eliza, and Sarah
HOLTHEAD.—About 10 A.M. on the 3rd January the smack John and Eliza wasobserved in a dangerous position on a lee shore, and surrounded by broken water.
It was at the time blowing a gale from E.S.E. The Life-boat Thomas...