LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
Category: Services
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
Severini
The Norwegian steamer Severini, of Langesund, stranded on the north part of the Goodwin Sands on the 26th November whilst bound from Sunderland to Dieppe with a cargo of coal. A N.E. gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy sea, and the...
Danny and Ness
FIREMAN TAKEN TO LEAKING TUG Caister, Norfolk. At 6.50 on the morning of the 21st April, 1962, the crew of a fishing boat came ashore to report that flares had been fired from two vessels about three miles northeast- by-north from Caister....
Honley and Brockholes Guild
Ready for action; the ladies of Honley and Brockholes guild raised £460 during their coffee day and sale of Christmas goods at the home of Mrs Margaret Haffenden. They find ever increasing interest and support from the public in their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Desina
Wicklow.—At 5.*50 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow Head Lightkeeper reported a yacht sounding her siren and driving towards the rocks. At 6.0 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched. There was a heavy sea with a strong...
Arbitrator
IBKLAXD, — As the trawling smack Arbitrator, of Wexford, was proceeding to the fishing-ground at about 8 A.M, on the 13th November she struck on the bar, and began to leak heavily, She hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of Feb- ruary, 1954, the coastguard reported that a man was in the sea in French- man Bay, about one and three-quarter miles south of the Tyne. At 4.14 the life-boat Tynesider...
Sally
Wells, Norfolk.—There was a thick fog in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, and the owner of the local motor fishing boat Sally reported that she was overdue. He asked for the life-boat to search for her, and at 4.55 the Cecil Paine...
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...