LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Irish Girl
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. — During a strong S. gale and heavy sea on the 12th February a vessel was seen trying to make her way into Holyhead Harbour, but she failed owing to the state of the weather. She then anchored and hoisted a signal, in...
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
Omnibus, of Aberystwith
On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commis- sioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbour- tug Aid, there being a fresh wind from...
Snow Wych
Yacht on bar THE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD On Watch at Penrhyn on Tuesday April 17 saw, at 1155, a small yacht under outboard engine with her mainsail up making for the River Teifi. It was a fine day with a clear sky and the sea in the bay was...
A Jet Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...
Frances
At about 6 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a moderate N.E. gale, a telephone message was received reporting that a dismasted schooner was in distress off Trevose Head. The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey, in tow of the tug...
Two Fishing Cobles
About 9 P.M.
on the 28th June the N.E. wind con- siderably freshened and gradually in- creased until about 11 P.M., when it was considered that the fishing cobles which were still at sea, were in danger. The No. 1 Life-boat...
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brighton
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
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HELICOPTER LOWERS DOCTORS TO LIFE-BOAT The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.3 on the evening of the 16th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two girls were in difficulties in Three Cliffs Bay.
There...