LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...
Joan
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that the sailing dinghy Joan, with two men and a boy on board, had capsized a hundred yards north-east of the...
Orsidi and Cap Lizard
TWO YACHTS TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.45 a.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that distress signals had been seen to the northward. At 1.10 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis...
Services by Shore-Boats (6)
FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 11.30 P.M on the 27th May, 1939, it was reported that the motor boat Peggy Lynn, of Peterhead, was lying one mile east of Cairnbulg, apparently-in need of help. The lifeboat’s motor mechanic and a...
Category: Services
RNLI Appoints New Director
The RNLI has appointed David Brann as its new director of fundraising and communications.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Vessel
Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...
YLA Section
All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.
(Tel.: 0722-6966).FAIR...
Category: Articles
Skogaland
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to...
A Vessel
A vessel's light having been observed in a dangerous position near the breakers in the S.E. part of the bay near PenrhynPoint during a whole gale from the N.W.
and a very heavy sea on the morning of the 26th January,...
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Swimming cow saved Crew members at Douglas lifeboat station, Isle of Man, have received a certificate of commendation from the RSPCA following their rescue of a cow, which had got stuck in a rocky cove at the bottom of a...