LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gay Star (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th April, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Gay Star had requested assistance eight miles north west of Strumbie head. Apparently her engine had failed. She carried a crew of...
Auchmacoy
FEBRUARY 9TH. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.20 P .M. news was received from the Collieston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be aground at the mouth of the Ythan. The weather was cold, with a moderate southerly wind...
An Aeroplane (68)
AUGUST 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 P.M. the R.A.F., Chatham, reported an aircraft down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham. A moderate N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderatesea. The No. 1 motor...
The Ketches F. H. Bolt and Anne, and Crabbers St. Eloi, Susanne Yvonne, etc
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1956, the police rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that flares had been seen from a vessel about three miles off shore near Hilbre Island. The coxswain kept the vessel...
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1934
LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.
The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...
Category: Correspondence
Sovereign, Tagus and a Norwegian Schooner
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals of distress were shown by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel at about 12.45 A.M. on the 17th February, during a moderate gale from the S.E., with a heavy sea on the bar. The Life-boat Mark Lane was manned, towed out of...
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Category: Advertisement
Two Dinghies (1)
Ennal's Point crew ON THURSDAY June 4, 1981, The Mumbles D class inflatable lifeboat was at sea taking part in filming for the BBC 2 series 'Ennal's Point' when, at 1930, a dinghy capsized with Gareth Armstrong, one of the...