LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alroyd
On the 22nd February, during a whole W.S.W. gale, accompanied by thunder and lightning, the Assistant Coxswain of the Life-boat saw a vessel caught in a squall, her sails blown away and her foretopmast stay carried away. As the vessel...
Pilot Me
On the 17th February the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me put out at about 8 A.M. to fish off Marske. During the day the sea got up and increased considerably with the flood tide. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with showers of...
A Canoe
Margate, Kent. At 3.24 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys in a canoe were being blown out to sea by a strong south- south-westerly wind off the Neyland Rocks. There was a...
Wild Goose
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 11.30 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been seen between two and three miles west-south-west of Towyn. At 11.45 the life-boat...
Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
Film Winner In Italy
A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.
The film shows a...
Category: Articles
Three Stations Celebrate Centenaries
THE hundredth anniversary of the foundation of life-boat stations at Thurso and Whitehills in Scotland, and at Portrush in Northern Ireland, have recently been celebrated.
At Thurso Lord Saltoun, a member of the Committee...
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A Dinghy (11)
Plymouth, Devon. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th September, 1961, the coastguard told the cox- swain's wife that a small dinghy had capsized about a hundred yards off Gara Point and that a man was in the water. The...
Belle Isle and Isabella
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....
Cardiff Queen
Ilfracombe, Devon - On 30th July, 1966, the life-boat Lloyd's II was afloat at Combe Martin in connection with the local life-boat flag day. After she left Combe Martin Bay at 8.30 p.m. the pleasure steamer Cardiff Queen was seen about...