LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.
It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
She...
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
Letters
Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.
Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...
Category: Correspondence
Benghazi
HULL TRAWLER WRECKED IN THE HEBRIDES Tobermory, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.35 in the morning of the 24th of April, 1947, the Kyle coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore on Fladda Island near Culipool and was firing distress rockets. The...
Bolivar
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half...
Pan
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norwegian vessel Pan had engine trouble six miles south-east of Dun- cansby Head and needed help imme- diately. The life-boat City...
Eight Lloyds Bank Staff from Petersfield Branch Their Friends and Customers Together With An East Hampshire Post
Eight Lloyds Bank staff from Petersfield branch, their friends and customers together with an East Hampshire Post reporter made a sponsored parachute jump last April.
The adventurous group, who raised £750 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dijon and Peebles (1)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
A Fishing Boat
Torbay, Devon. At 2.58 on the after- noon of the 16th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was flying distress flags two miles south-south-east of Berry Head. There was a moderate north-westerly...