LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lerina (1)
Clovelly, and Appledore, Devon.-—-At 1.35 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1948, the Hartland coast- guard reported to Clovelly that the motor vessel Lerina, of Bideford, which takes supplies to Lundy Island, had dragged her anchors...
Allegiance
CREW TRANSFERRED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.24 a.m.
on i8th May, 1965^ the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from Ilfracombe radio station that the motor vessel Saggat had...
WAVING ANNIE GOODBYE
Wicklow lifeboat crew reflect on 30 years of lifesaving with the last of the Tyne class lifeboats – the Annie Blaker
In 1982, Dexy’s Midnight Runners got the world on the dancefloor. A little boy named William became third...
Category: Articles
Clifford's Improved Method of Lowering Boats at Sea
IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...
Category: Articles
Burry Port
Burry Port crew member Ryan Griffiths (right) had a hard time convincing fellow crew member Jeremy Williams that they had shared the workload equally after the crew had taken part in a low-water exercise along the very muddy Welsh coast. {In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (16)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned. The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
New District Inspectors Appointed
As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...
Category: Committee
Ross Alcedo
Heavy tow for Channel Islands Tyne saves fishing boat and four crew St Heller's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher is pictured towing the 105ft commercial fishing vessel Ross Alcedo into St Helier harbour after taking her in...
St. Ronan
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 12th of October, 1952, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the trawler St. Ronan, of Hull, had run on the rocks at St.
John's Point, near John...
Governor Ready, of Douglas
BALLYWALTER. — On the 5th March information was received that a smack had been observed about ten miles distant, eastward, from the shore, in distress and apparently signalling for help.
The Life-boat William Wallace was...