LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
More Life-Boat Days Wanted!
A request has been made by a visitor to Newquay, Cornwall, that there should be more than one Life-boat Day each year, and the request is heartily supported by one of the local newspapers, the Bodmin Guardian.
The visitor...
Category: Articles
Alhena
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
Vidonia
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The William Beckett of Leeds Life-boat was launched at noon on the 15th February to the aid of the barquentine Vidonia, of Bridport, bound from Pernambuco with a cargo of sugar, which had stranded on the bar during a fresh...
Prima Donna
WEXFORD.—At about 3.30 P.M. on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from the W.S.W., the fishing yawl Prima Donna, of Wexford, grounded on the south side of the bar. The No. 1 Life-boat, Andrew Pickard, was at once manned and...
A Royal Reception
A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
Category: Meetings
Annabel II
Capsized motor cruiser AT 1150 ON FEBRUARY 22, Skipper Tony Meyler, on board MFV Western Seas lying alongside in Aberystwyth Harbour, was told by Peter Kokelaar that the motor cruiser Annabel II had just capsized in heavy surf near the...
Druid
RESCUES BY HELICOPTER AND PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 22nd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor vessel had capsized on the Kibble bar. At 4.12 the life-boat...
Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...
J. W. Sebell
CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people,...