LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Anson Aeroplane
JULY 8TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A British Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by a Walrus amphibious aeroplane.
- Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..
A Naval Vessel
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
A naval vessel had struck a mine just outside the entrance to the harbour, but her crew were rescued by another vessel. - Rewards, £6 13s..
A Cabin Cruiser
Workington, Cumberland - At 6.31 p.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser with a crew of two was in difficulties half a mile off shore. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her...
A 'Landmarc' Campaign
Pictured at Okehampton Army Camp in the relief D class lifeboat Helen Olive Palmer are: Clovelly Crew Member Adam Campbell-Carnett, Landmarc Commercial Director Steve Utley, Regional Operations Manager for ATE South West Graham Lofts,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (5)
GIRL RESCUED BY SPEED BOAT North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Newton Link house. A...
A False Alarm
EARLY in the morning of 22nd August the Selsey Motor Life-boat was launched iu answer to signals from what appeared to be a vessel in distress off Bognor.
She cruised about for three hours, but could find no sign of any...
Category: Articles
H.M.S. Rhyl, A Minesweeper
JANUARY 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. During a south-westerly gale with a very rough sea H.M.S. Rhyl, a minesweeper, parted her tow from a tug off Felixstowe.
She anchored, but the anchors dragged and she was drifting...
A Bronze Medal Service at Boulmer
SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.
Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...
Category: Services
A Motor Fishing Boat
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
A Dinghy (1)
MAN FOUND AFTER EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Portree had reported that a man was calling for help from his...