LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roaming
Arklow, Co. Wicklow— On the 28th November, 1938, the trawler Roaming, of Arklow, with a crew of three, lost her rudder while fishing in Courtown Bay. She made for Arklow with the flood tide, using trawl boards for steering, and sending up...
A Beaufort Fighter Aeroplane
JULY 6TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A Beaufort fighter aeroplane bad come down in the sea, but her crew of two were rescued by a fishing coble which was close by when she crashed. - Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards,...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 2yth August, 1966, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown rescued six people who had been trapped by the tide. An account of this service will appear in the March, 1967, number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Southsea In Hampshire.
The above photograph was sent in by a RNLI member who spotted this colourful 175 flag design bedding at Southsea in Hampshire. The display was the result of much hard work on behalf of the Portsmouth and Southsea guild. Photo: WJ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Whaler
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.— At 9.30 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Walton Bay Signal Station reported that some sea cadets sailing a whaler to Newport, Monmouth- shire, from Clevedon, had anchored in a dangerous position...
Contents
Contents Volume XLIII Number 447 Price 15p Chairman: COMMANDER F. R. H. SWANN, CBE, RNVR Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL D1XON, RN THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT 1824-1974 Lives Saved: 98,500 Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .....
Category: Contents
D.U.K.W. (1)
Cromer, Norfolk - At 3.15 p.m. on nth December, 1966, two flares were reported from a D.U.K.W. which was about a mile off Cromer east beach. The No. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched at 3.27 in a light south westerly wind...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 5th April a heavy broken sea on the bar prevented the majority of the fishing fleet from putting out to sea, but three of the cobles ventured out, incurring great risk and causing considerable excitement. About 1.30 two of them...
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...
Yla Section
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles