LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
Fishing Boats (4)
On the following day the Life-boat was again taken out and assisted two fishing boats which were making for the harbour in a very heavy sea. The first boat was got safely ia, and the other one, acting on the warning of the Life-boat men,...
Boulmer Inaugural Ceremony
Left to right: The Viscount Grey of Fallodou. K.G.. the Dulce of Northumberland, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Bishop of Newcastle, Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson. the Chairman of the Branch, and the Rev. F.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Night Launch at Blackpool
The occasion was a special illumination of the town.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ballot Box By Life-Boat
AFTER the general election in February, the ballot box from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was brought to the mainland by the Islay life-boat. The cost was paid by the returning officer..
Category: Services
H.L.S. 161.
Weymouth, Dorset,—On the 2nd of April, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland rescued four lives from the tug H.L.S. 161. Rewards, the silver medal to the coxswain, the bronze medal to the motor mechanic, and £19 12*. to coxswain...
Periodical Exercise of Lifeboats' Crews
As it is considered that the periodical exercise of the crews of life-boats is very essential, it is hoped that the several Local Committees in connexion with the National Shipwreck Institution, will pay particular attention to that part of...
Category: Articles
Bass, Alto and Vivendi
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
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Ilfracombe, Devon-At 8.45 p.m.
on 2nd June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliffs at Tors Walk, Brandy Cove. The cliff rescue team had lowered a doctor to assist him. The...
An Aeroplane (127)
AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...