LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dan O’Connell
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and anchored. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Rnli National Lottery
THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
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Ann Wilmot
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
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Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...
Mary Johns
At about 1 a.m. on the 9th April, the Coastguard reported that rockets were being fired from the Tongue Light- Vessel ; the crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were thereupon summoned and the boat was as soon as possible launched. The...
140,000 reasons for your support
When a kitesurfer was pulled to safety by Fraserburgh volunteers off the coast of Aberdeenshire last June, a major milestone was passed.
Bodgan Bocaneala (pictured) got entangled with his lines while kitesurfing in...
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True Vine
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—During the afternoon of the 1st March it was learned that a boat was showing distress signals. A squally E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with showers of snow, and the sea was choppy and increasing. The motor life-boat...
Lifeboat Museums and Display Centres By Richard Mann Display Manager
THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
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Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
Lady Betty
TWO MOTOR YACHTS BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a motor yacht in difficulties off Pcacehavcn, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched...