LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishermen saved off Donegal
LOUGH SWILLY | 8 SEPTEMBER
Lough Swilly lifeboat crew rescued six fishermen and their sinking boat off the Donegal coast. The inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched at 3.15am. They found all six...
Category: Articles
Jane Kilgour
BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been shown by the barque Jane Kilgour, of Dundee, during a strong gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 4th February, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Sradford, was launched at 1.30 P.M.,...
Mount Ida
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the 9th October, 1939, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey rescued the crew of twentynine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, of Piraeus, which had grounded on the Ower Bank. The No. 2 motor life-boat Harriot Dixon was...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirtieth Annual Meeting of this most bene- volent Institution was held at Burdett Hall, Lime- house, on the 11th June, the DUKE OF MARL- BOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.
Amongst the company present...
Category: Meetings
R.A.F. Speed-Boats
Exmouth, and Torbay, Devonshire.— * 18th October, 1939. A message was received, at 7.25 in the evening from the R.A.F. that two of their speed- boats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head and the motor life- boat was launched with...
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IRB's ALSO LAUNCHED Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.45 p.m. on loth August, 1965, news came that a cafe owner at Fontigary Bay had reported a number of children were trapped on the rocks on a rising tide. The life-boat Rachel and Mary...
Shamrock
AUGUST 31ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
During the afternoon news was received that a rowing boat was showing signals of distress a mile east of Colwyn Bay Pier, and that no motor boat was available there. A strong S.W....
Chief Constable Sir John Evans
Chief Constable Sir John Evans presents a cheque to branch chairman Mike Webber © Devon & Cornwall Police. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (1)
FISHING BOAT BURNS FLARES Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.10 on the evening of Sunday the 15th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the coastguard and the police that distress flares had been seen three and a half miles south-east of the...
A Motor Fishing Vessel (1)
MFV Ashore A MOTOR FISHING VESSEL ashore on the south side of the Conwy approach channel was reported to a deputy launching authority of Conwy inshore lifeboat station by Penmon Coastguard at 0752 on Thursday, April 14. Maroons were fired...