LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a...
A Yacht (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 10.22 a.m. on I3th July, 1964. the coastguard told the harbour master that a small sailing craft had capsized off Thatcher Rock and two people were clinging to it. At 10.28 the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight south...
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...
New Members of Committee of Management
Major Bertram Bell, Mr. Raymond Cory, Mr. John Russell, and Mr. Nigel Varrington Smyth, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Major Bell, who lives in Fota Island (Co. Cork),...
Category: Committee
Kayak
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.36 on the morning of the 7th of July, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen near Ventnor pier. He added that some local boats had gone out to a yacht and there appeared to be no...
Rnli Medina 35 from Page 19
from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...
Category: Articles
A Curragh
AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.
At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...
Sweet William Continued from Page 95
fectly and they departed full of smiles, I suspect of relief, and only charged a nominal fee.
Hatherleigh Market was close by so I asked the market RSPCA inspector to check William; he was reported in excellent...
Category: Articles
A Village Life-Boat Day
(From Country Life.) THERE was a sound of men's voices singing, calls and cries, laughter and the ringing of a bell; everyone went to the windows. Through the new green leaves one could see in the road a little group of men and girls...
Category: Articles
President
CARDIGAN.—The fishing-boat President, of Aberayron, put into Cardigan bay, during a N.N.E. wind and a heavy ground sea on the morning of the 13th May, and made signals of distress. The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare put off to her...