LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dinghies and Viveuse
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...
Birthday Treat:
Birthday treat: pictured right are two Poole schoolchildren, Katie Morgan 7'/2 and Richard Winter 11, who visited the RNLI's headquarters during the half term holiday, not only to enroll in the Storm Force Club for under 16s, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (1)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. •— On the 15th January the fishing fleet from Arranmore, Burtonport, and the surrounding islands, put off to fish in Boylagh Bay. The boats did not return when expected, and, as a dense fog set in, the motor life-boat...
Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
Category: Articles
City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...
Fishing Yawls
ARBROATH.—While a strong gale was blowing from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow, on the 22nd January, twelve of the fishing yawls were returning, but it was feared they would be unable to enter the harbour. The Lifeboat William Souter...
A Motor Boat (1)
Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.27 p.m. on 18th May, 1966, a woman informed the honorary secretary that she and her husband had been in a motor boat which capsized in Lantio Bay, but they had managed to scramble ashore. The lifeboat Deneys Reitz was...
Hattie
On the morning of the 8th July, a boat was observed about four miles from the shore at Bude, with a signal flying. She tacked about several times, as if intending to make Bude. The crew assembled, and the Elizabeth Moore Garden Life-boat...
Ailsea
Peel, Isle of Man - At 4.55 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Ailsea had run ashore half a mile north east of Jurby Head. The crew of the life-boat assembled, but a message was then...
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Flamborough and Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.20 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliff about two miles north west of the life-boat station. The IRB stationed at Filey was...