LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coquetside
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.41 p.m.
on i5th July, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Coquetside of Conway had broken down with engine trouble eight miles west of the Skerries. At 10.53 tne life-boat...
A Motor Dinghy
TOO LIGHTLY CLAD Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fibreglass outboard motor dinghy had left the Warren caravan camp at 2 p.m. with four people on board to fish off the St....
The War Department Vessels Brigadier and Grey Lady
AUGUST 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 12.5 in the morning the King’s harbour master reported that men and a boat were marooned on the Rennie Rocks between the breakwater and the Mew Stone. They had been trying to salve a small...
Award to Life Saving Companies for Best Service
MR. JOHN BOYD-CARPENTER, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year to be held jointly by the rocket coast life saving companies of Sea Palling and Winterton. Norfolk.
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Category: Awards
His Majesty King George V
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 128 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 40 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 29th, 1936 - 64,549
His Majesty King George...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat (2)
Selsey, Sussex.—19th August, 1939.
It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the lifeboat could find nothing.—Rewards, £11 15s..
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1949.
£ s. d.
26 6 6 • •M MW Subscriptions, Donations, Collecting Boxes, and Special Efforts, 15 1 9 K ...
Category: Accounts
False Alarms
Dummies from Aeroplanes: New Regulations.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat two false alarms were recorded. In each case a parachute, with a dummy attached, had been dropped into the sea by an aeroplane, and the dummy was...
Category: Articles
Worcester Ladies Guild
The fourth annual concert organised by Worcester ladies guild had, as star attraction, top television and recording personality Iris Williams. Miss Williams agreed to sing in the concert after making a BBC series aboard the liner Canberra,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rainbow
Life-boat and safely landed at 8.45 A.M.
On the 3rd March flares were seen on the North Sand and signals were fired by the light-vessel. The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.35 A.M. in a very heavy sea, the wind...