LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swift
ENGINEER WAS ILL Margate, Kent. At 2.32 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Swift of London had reported that the second engineer was seriously ill and needed a doctor. The life-boat...
Sultan
FISHING VESSEL SAVED Rhyl, Flintshire. At 11.20 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coxswain observed two flares fired from the motor fishing vessel Sultan in a position two miles east by north of Rhyl. He immediately informed the coastguard and...
Good Hope
At 6.10 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, a message was received that the m.f.v.
Good Hope had reported by radio telephone that she had run out of fuel while on passage from Jersey to Plymouth, and was drifting about 15 miles off...
Boy Peter, Bluebell
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.10 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Boy Peter was ashore on the south side of Proudfoot.
The fishing vessel Bluebell was also...
Spreety (1)
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
Stranraer:
Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dusty Miller
ABERSOCH.—On the 10th October, a telegram was received from Barmouth, stating that a vessel was in distress, riding at anchor dangerously near to St. Patrick's Causeway, and that it was impossible for the Barmouth Life-boat to go to her...
Ripple
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—Signals of distress having been observed on the 12th April, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at about 3.30 AM., and found the yacht Ripple of and for Liverpool, from Conway, with three men on board, at anchor...
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Tyne class lifeboat ON-1116 Roben and Violet Funding Anonymous gift THE CREW Co swain Anthony Barclay Crew members Dave Jones Dave Jones IJnr] Vincent Jones Rod Pace Gary Roberts David Williams MOELFRE LIFEBOAT STATION...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (3)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...