LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...

Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 4.22 on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received from the skipper of the fishing vessel Wiseman that the local fishing vessel Mayflower was ashore at Cairnbulg Point. At 4.36 the life-boat...

STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...

TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO LEBANESE STEAMER Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 30th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Eastbourne honorary secretary that a ship had been reported on fire four miles south of...

COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...

19 O*J FIT FOR A 'QUEEN'S' LIFEBOA Tand the R.N.L.I.

R.N.LI. 41ft. Walson lype lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porb&agles' installed.

The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cytinder...

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