LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Whaler
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.— At 9.30 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Walton Bay Signal Station reported that some sea cadets sailing a whaler to Newport, Monmouth- shire, from Clevedon, had anchored in a dangerous position...
In the New Year's Honours List
IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 9.22 in the morning of the 6th of January,1952, the Scilly Islands medical officer telephoned that a patient at St. Mary's needed an immediate operation and, owing to fog, the surgeon and his staff could not fly...
Shamrock
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 16th of August, 1956, the harbourmaster reported that dis- tress signals had been observed out at sea. The life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched at...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
Moray Lass
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 21st of February, 1957, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen near the shore in Ayr Bay. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a...
Flamingo
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch appeared to have broken down one mile south-east of the pier. One of her crew of three was waving an oar, and at 6.17...
Floradora
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 11.13 on the night of the 15th of November, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about half a mile off Anstruther harbour.
The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson...
The Coxswain Goes Aboard
Coxswain J. Dumble, of Sheringham, Norfolk, getting into an aeroplane.
The Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force which protects our coasts, shipping and fishing fleets from attack from the air (and has been nicknamed the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs