LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
FIVE WERE MISSING Troon, Ayrshire. At 6.30 p.m. on i ith October, 1964, the coxswain heard that five men of the St. Michael Sub Aqua Club had failed to return from a trip to Lady Isle. The sea was smooth with a light north-easterly breeze....
(Below Right) Coxswain Harry Jones Welcomes the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant to Hoylake Lifeboat Station on April 25 Committee and Crew Were Present In Str
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (1)
Dover, Kent.—At half past six in the evening of the 13th of August, 1949, a rowing boat which had been stolen from Dover was reported to be between St. Margarets Bay and Langdon Bay with two men on board. The life-boat Southern Africa was...
The Freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At noon on 3ist October, 1966, a seaman aboard the freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay, required medical attention, as a cockroach had crawled into his ear, causing severe earache. The life-boat Guy and Clare...
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1951, January and February, 1952. 76 Lives Rescued
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
Two Brothers
MAY 30TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Shortly after 1 P.M. the local fishing smack Two Brothers, with a crew of two, went to sea. As a moderate westerly wind was blowing with a moderatesea the smack was watched, and at about 4 P.M. she...
Marabut
DEAD WOMAN FOUND IN SEA Anstruther, Fife. At 12.49 on the afternoon of Wednesday the 31 st of July, 1963, the coastguard at Anstruther informed the honorary secretary that the Polish trawler Marabut had reported that she was standing by the...
News from the Branches
Gateshead.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...
Category: Branches
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRB's which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full elsewhere in THE LIFE-BOAT, the following launches on service were made during the months of April to August, 1965, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services