LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Firefly Aircraft
St. Ives, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.— At 8.53 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1955, the St. Ives coastguard rang up the St. Ives life-boat station to say that a Firefly aircraft had crashed, and that men had been seen in a rubber...
Books
• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
RICHARD WAKELEY, aged 12, of Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, is probably the youngest editor of a nau- tical review to donate his sales profits to the Institution.
He writes, illustrates and distributes carbon copies...
Category: Donations
Gramsbergen
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.26 early on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Grams- bergen, of Holland, had run ashore in Fishguard harbour. At 3.5 the life- boat White Star was...
A Converted Ship's Boat Sailfish
Wells, Norfolk.—At 11.3 on the morn- ing of the 5th of June, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a boat was in difficulties off Wells. At 11.15 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched in a rough sea. There was a strong north-north-westerly...
Karl Marx
BridlingtSn, Yorkshire. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 12th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that green flares had been reported six to eight miles east-by- south of Flamborough Head. There was a moderate...
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Category: Advertisement
Two Naming Ceremonies In Northumberland. Cullercoats and Boulmer
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....