LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ship’s Boat Dronze
OCTOBER 21ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At about 11 A.M. the harbour master was informed by telephone that a ship’s boat, the Dronze, of Howth, had left Howth at 9 P.M. the previous evening to go to Sutton, four miles...
Below: Celebrity Autographs - Fresh from Appearances on the Small Screen Salcombe Coxswain Frank Smith
Below: Celebrity autographs - fresh from appearances on the small screen Salcombe coxswain Frank Smith signs copies of a print of the Salcombe lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sonja
OCT. 5TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 2.10 P.M. the Southend coastguard reported that a vessel had stranded on the Skerryvore Reef, Machrihanish.
It was thought that the services of a tug might be...
An Aeroplane (91)
AUGUST 15TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British aeroplane had crashed, and the pilot had been seen descending by parachute, but although wreckage was found nothing more was seen of the man or parachute. - Rewards, £20 12s..
Obituary
With deep regret we announce the following deaths: April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was...
Category: Obituaries
British Paints Limited
TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields lifeboat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
Category: Advertisement
Mary Coad
GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...
La Libertine
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...
Primrose
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.1 on the afternoon of the llth of September, 1956, a message was received from the East pier that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Quern buoy. At 3.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was...
Le Vieux Tigre
In. response to information received from the Hais- borough Light Vessel, through the Coastguard, the Motor Life-boat H. F.
Bailey put out at 3.50 A.M. on 4th October, in fine weather, with a light swell and moderate S.S.W....