LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...

FUEL HAD RUN OUT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.10 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Marie II, a converted ship's lifeboat, was long overdue in reaching Conway.

She was...

TOW FOR YACHT WITH NINE ABOARD Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 13th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was flashing a light off North Stack and appeared in...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the night of the 4th of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a smallsailing boat was drifting off Rhos- colyn with two youths aboard. At 9.31 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched...

ON September 6th the Brighton and Hove branch arranged a balloon race, with the help of Messrs. J. Lyons, who supplied the balloons. The race con- tinued all day, and among those who came to see it were the Mayor of Hove, one of the two...

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The Lifeboat enthusiasts’ handbook 2009 is now out and available for £6. Essential for all who want to be sure of numbers, names and locations of every RNLI lifeboat, launching tractor and more, it can be ordered from the...