LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...

Howth, Co. Dublin.—During the evening of the 23rd May, 1938, a converted ship's life-boat put off from Baldoyle, with a party of three men, four boys and two girls on board. Her sail was blown away, she got into difficulties, and the...

Front Cover Arranmore's new Severn class, Myrtle Maud, (ON1244) shows off her new livery during trials. Inset: Cromer Coxswain Richard Davies, carries the RNLI colours at the Festival of Remembrance in November joined by Director Andrew... - View image in PDF

APRIL 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A report had been received that some airmen were in a dinghy, but the lifeboat and her motor boarding boat, which both went out, found some soldiers fishing from a dinghy. - Rewards, £13 12s..<...

AUGUST 14TH. - FLAMBOROUGH , YORKSHIRE. Some people had been marooned in the cliffs, but when the lifeboat was launched her propeller was fouled by rubbish, and when she was ready to go she was not needed. - Rewards, £8 11s..

OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but no trace of it could be found. - Rewards, £16 1s. 6d..

WHEN LIVES ARE AT STAKE Schermuly pyrotechnic life-saving equipment—outstanding for performance and reliability—is the choice of the R.N.L.I., H.M. Coastguard and Trinity House.

Line-Throwing Apparatus — Distress Signalling...

LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....