LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cormorant
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...
Evelyn Rose
Islay, Inner Hebrides. — At 6.45 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1949, the Kilchqman coastguard tele- phoned that a resident of Port Askaig had reported a vessel ashore on Jura, about one mile north of Inver. At 6.55 the life-beat...
PARAGLIDER CRASH
ABERYSTWYTH | 15 MAY
A paraglider, fearing that his flying partner had crashed into some cliffs, called 999. The crew of RNLI Aberystwyth's inshore rescue boat launched quickly, soon joined by the larger Atlantic 85 lifeboat....
Category: Articles
Marianne and Atalanta
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.15 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that one boat had capsized and another was in difficulties off Peace- haven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.30 in a light south-easterly...
Edith and Margaret Ann
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
Edith and Margaret Ann (1)
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
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APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber aeroplane had crashed on the island. A moderate N...
MISSION: accomplished
Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...
Category: Articles
Bangor Co Down:
Bangor, Co Down: The scene at the waterfront when, on Friday June 15, the dedication of the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat took place together with the official opening of the lifeboathouse recently built by North Down Borough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (45)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...