LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
Dover, Kent.—At 11.10 in the morn- ing of the 7th of August, 1948, the dockyard police reported that a small boat had capsized in the bay, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot was launched. The sea was...
Life-Boat Emergency Committees
A Suggestion to Stations.
WE should like to call the attention of Station Branches to an arrangement which has recently been made at Blyth, Northumberland. There are two Honorary Secretaries at this Station, but in order...
Category: Articles
Strindheim
Aberdeen.—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norweg- ian steamer Strindheim, laden with timber, was due to arrive off Aberdeen about eight o'clock in the evening and would want help...
Joanna
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1952, news was sent by the Portland coastguard through the Wyke Regis coastguard that a yacht was burning red flares about five miles south-south- west of Portland Bill. A...
Argo
On the morn- ing of the 15th August the coastguard brought news that a yacht in Dundrum Bay was flying distress signals. As the Newcastle life-boat was off service, it was decided to send the Cloughey motor life-boat William Maynardt arid...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...
Nancy
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.5 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, news was received that the engine of the pilot launch Nancy had broken down in a position between the North East and Dee buoys while taking a pilot out to a ship. The life-boat Anthony...
Shetland Trader
At 4.33 p.m. on I9th January, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Shetland Trader had a sick man on board who required medical attention. The life-boatMillie Walton slipped her moorings at 4.50 with a doctor on board. There was a light...
Gay Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 2.30 a.m. on 3oth March, 1967, news was received that the fishing boat Gay Star with a crew of two was in difficulties two miles west of Bardsey Island. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley launched...
(Right) a Model of the New Lifeboat House
(right) A model of the new lifeboat house and slipway at the end of Cromer pier - a project which will be the largest ever undertaken by the RNLI. Work commences shortly and should take some 15 to 18 months to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs