LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ten stranded HARTLAND COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station at 2115 on Monday March 28, 1983, that an adventure holiday party, three adult instructors and seven children, had not returned following a day...
Lifeboats at war
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
Category: Articles
County Associations (Continued from Page 12)
In continuation of the description of the Anglesea Life-boat stations, we have now to give an account of Rhoscolyn, Penmon, Llanddwyn, aud Moelfre. Before doing so, however, we have to correct a mistake as to the Holyhead boat, which, in...
Category: Articles
Thelma
BARGE SINKING IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a barge, from which they had rescued a woman, was drifting away from the pier and sinking, and her...
Persevere and Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 1.52 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on Hook Sands. On reaching the life- boathouse the coxswain saw three other boats which also appeared...
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
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Obituary
IT is with the deepest regret that we have to record the death of Lieut.- Augustus Philip Clayton, of Coombe Colonel Sir FitzRoy Augustus Talbot Bank, Kent. He was educated at Clayton, K.C.V.O., which took place i Eton and served in the...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Cobles
On the 14th May the first of six fishing-cobles re- turned to harbour, in a strong N.N.E.
breeze, at 11.30 A.M. Four boats came in safely, and although everything was in readiness it was not considered neces- sary to launch...
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CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
Category: Services
Royston
DECEMBER 7TH. - 13TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning a message was received at Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles south of Palling coastguard station. A strong...