LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vega
AUGUST 22ND. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 5 P.M. the coastwatchers reported a yacht dismasted off the Bailey lighthouse. A strong squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. A strong tide was running. The motor...
Arka
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 30th of August, 1954, the Carnoustie coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Arka, of Gydnia, which had a sick man on board, had run aground one and a half miles...
Fishing Boats (2)
GOURDOR, JOHNSHAVEN, MONTROSE AND ARBROATH. — A strong gale suddenly sprung up on the east coast of Scotland on the morning of the 6th January and the fishing fleets were compelled to return as quickly as possible to the...
Cover Picture
Silver medals for outstanding gallantry were presented to three Hfeboatmen at the annual presentation of awards on May 22: to (/.) Coxswain Kenneth Voice, Shoreham Harbour, for the service to the Greek cargo vessel Athina B on January 21,... - View image in PDF
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Aldborough
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
Category: Articles
Monie
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At i a.m.
on 25th August, 1965, the signal station told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off the east coast of Herm Island and at i.u the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea...
An Aircraft
Buckie, Banffshire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1959,a message was received from the coast- guard that an aircraft had crashed three quarters of a mile north of Scaur Nose Head. At 2.5 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was...
Contents
CONTENTS PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE 3 40 YEARS OF SERVICE 8 HUGE EXPANSION IN WORK OF R.N.L.I. 9 FINE JOINT SAVE AT MARGATE 12 HARBOUR RESCUE IN DARKNESS 16...
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Point Girl
Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 30th November the motor lifeboat Laurana Sarah Blunt went out on exercise. When near Cape! Island, she saw two men in a small fishing boat, about a mile and a half S.E. of the island, waving for...
Dr. Colyn
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 9 A.M. on the 2nd May the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was ashore near Johnshaven. A gentle south breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...