LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 12.45 p.m. on 20th August, 1969, it was learnt that there was an injured man at Ballard head and that another man was stranded on the cliff. At 12.56 the life-boat R.L.P.
was launched in a fresh south westerly wind. It...
A Landing Craft
JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...
A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
A Flat-Bottomed Punt
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.35 on the evening of the 30th of November, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed by the signal station of a police report. This was that two men, who had left Lihou Island at four o'clock in a...
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
H.M. Barge Celtic
FEBRUARY 26TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At ten o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported H.M. barge Celtic in difficulties, with a. damaged rudder, about two miles northeast of Berwick High Lighthouse. An eastnorth- east...
Fiver II
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.
32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...
George Hastings
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 18th of April, 1950, the police reported that a trawler which had just put out had run ashore and was blowing her siren. At 3.50, the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a...
A Rowing Boat (1)
TWO SAVED FROM ROWING BOAT Peel, Isle of Man. At 4.46 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the Peel coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two people on board was seen to be in difficulties two and a half miles...
Chenonceaux
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 2.55 a.m. on 8th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the French trawler Chenonceaux had gone aground on the rocks at Burial Isle, Birr Point, Co. Down.
The life-boat...