LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
16 Year-Old Boy Helps to Save Life-Boat
Ox the morning of the 2nd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Aldeburgh no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched for a routine exercise. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and there was a moderate swell.
The life-boat returned...
Category: Services
The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House By Ian Haken
DURING A REGULAR inspection at Tenby in 1978 the RNLI's consulting engineers. Lewis and Duvivier. found that since their previous triennial upkeep and maintenance inspection many of the timber piles of the lifeboat house had deteriorated...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1947
IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...
Category: Services
The Small Steam Launch Nimrod
GIRVAN.—In consequence of a gale from the S.W. and a heavy fresh in the river on the 9th February, there was dangerous surf on the bar of the harbour.
The small steam-launch Nimrod, which plies between Girvan and Ailsa...
A Yacht
Margate, Kent.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 3rd August the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on Margate Sand west of the North Sand Beacon. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly wind. At 8.40 A.M.
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Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...
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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Holyhead, Anglesey.—Just after mid- day on the 4th of May, 1947, the coast- guard reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide at Forth Towyn. and the motor life-boat A.E.D.
left her...
Trustful
Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 p.m. on iyth April, 1965, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Quern buoy.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 9.45 in a strong...
Sorel, of Denmark
Lerwick, Shetland - At 9.46 p.m on 9th March, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported nearly ashore in the south harbour.
At 10.10 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth proceeded in a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The C.R.E...
The Small Motor Fishing Boat Scot
FEBRUARY 17TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The small motor fishing boat Scot, with a crew of four, left Stornoway to fish in the morning, and anxiety was felt when darkness came on and she had not returned. A southerly gale was...