LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
OCTOBER 12TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. A small boat had been blown out to sea, but she reached land unaided.
- Rewards, £7 11s.
(See Wicklow, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 66.).
A Small Fishing Boat
Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.
She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...
Inshore Lifeboat Launches on Service
ILB launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 12 and 28, May 12.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 7, 13 and 26, May 7 and 17.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 1, May 12 (2)...
Category: Services
Our Brother
Boulmer, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 29th January a fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough and increasing sea. Visibility was bad, and it was raining heavily. All local cobles, with the exception of the Our Brother, came...
A Tug (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...
Aeroplanes (1)
AUGUST 13TH. - SELSEY SUSSEX.
During an air battle a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the airman was saved by a destroyer. Several enemy aeroplanes had also crashed, and the search was continued, but the...
Doodle-Bug
Margate, Kent. — At 8.33 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had burnt flares two and a half miles east of Margate, and at 8.40 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was launched....
Forest Row Lifeboat Choir
THIRTY-NINE Christmases ago in Forest Row, a little Sussex village nearly 30 miles from its nearest lifeboat, the village postman, Billy Mills, joined two local church choirs together to go carol singing to raise money for the RNLI.
Category: Articles
Arco
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morning of the 5th October the coastguard reported a small sailing boat in difficulties about three miles S.E. of Clacton pier. She was the smack Arco, of Leigh-on-Sea, with six men on board. Her sails had been...
Frank M
The motor life-boat Prudential put out at 7.22 A.M. on the 17th September, as the coastguard had reported that a vessel was drift- ing towards the harbour. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the vessel...