LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Life-Saving Service
FROM a communication received a short time since from Horr ANDERSEN, the Inspector of the Danish Life-saving Service, we learn that on the occasion of the visit of H.M. The KING OF DENMARK to the Skaw, on the 24th July last, a tabulated...
Category: Services
The S.S. Le Blanc
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 21st February the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey was launched in a nasty sea, with a moderate N.N.E. breeze, and stood by the s.s. Le Blanc, which had stranded near the Bell Buoy. At high water the...
Fishing Cobles
FISHERMEN'S RELIEF At 1.30 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that twelve fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the south-west with a very rough sea....
The Sailing Barge Asphodel
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 8.3 p.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the radio ship Olga Patricia had reported that a fishing smack was firing red flares about one mile north of her. The life-boat...
Two Rubber Dinghies (1)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 4.30 in the afternoon the Colwyn Bay police reported two men drifting out to sea on rubber dinghies. A southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was choppy. The motor...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.45 P-m- °n 22nd December, 1965, a doctor on Eday Island told the honorary secretary that a three-year-old boy had been run over by a motor vehicle and had sustained a broken leg and head injuries, and had since...
The S.S. Valhalla
At 4.5 A.M. on the 1st March, a message was received stating that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were assembled and the boat launched. On...
Edward Bridges
The largest and newest boat in the collection Edward Bridges (Civil Service and PO No.37) is one of the early wood-built Arun class, the remainder of which are still in service. The Aruns are inherently self righting because of the large... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Originator and Principal Organiser of Dublin Lifeboat Spring Sale Mrs Penny Montague Kavanagh
Originator and principal organiser of Dublin Lifeboat Spring Sale, Mrs Penny Montague Kavanagh.
photograph by courtesy of Charles Collins.
Category: Articles
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Dover, Kent.—At 6.35 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1952, the police reported that six boys were trapped by the tide between Fan Bay and St.
Margaret's, and at 8.50 the life-boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at...