LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hilda
ALL NIGHT SERVICE TO DUTCH COASTER Holyhead, Anglesey. At half past nine on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht in the harbour was flashing SOS signals. The...
George J. Goulandris
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 6.49 A.M. on the 15th January, 1938, the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nell's Point reported an S O S from the Greek steamer George J. Goulandris, of Andros, off Nash Point. She carried a crew of...
Keeping History Preserved
Keeping history preserved I read the feature on the National lifeboat Collection at Chatham with great interest, unfortunately the collection does not include the 'jewel in the crown', the oldest existing lifeboat in the world - the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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"The Always Ready."
These verses were written in October of last year before the death of Coxswain Robert Patton, to whom they were dedicated, and before the name of the Runswick life-boat was changed. They are printed here by very kind permission of the author...
Category: Poetry
Sea Rambler
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co.
Cork-At 7.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, a visitor informed the Barry's Cove lifesaving station that a launch was in difficulties in Dunworley bay. The lifeboat Sir Arthur Rose proceeded at 8...
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 5.35 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, two men were reported cut off by the tide in a cave near Land's End. A dinghy was put aboard the life-boat Susan Ashley which was launched at 5.55 in a moderate to fresh...
Pilot Me II, of Fraserburgh
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 5.30 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II of Fraserburgh was reported to be drifting ashore in the vicinity of Tiumpan Head lighthouse about 14 miles north east of Stornoway. The...
An Aeroplane and a Naval Drifter
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...
Garibaldi J.
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.15 a-m- on 15th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Kendall, towing the inshore fishing vessel Garibaldi J. from Rotterdam to Lowestoft, had run aground on the Newcombe...