LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli National Lottery
THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Joseph Mercer
Coxswain Joseph Mercer of Walmer died on the 5th of January, 1961, at the age of 80. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1945, having previously served for eight years as second coxswain. He was award- ed the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat
Exmouth, Devon. At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of July, 1958, the Beer coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Seaton police had reported a 14-feet motor boat adrift with engine trouble off the western beach. Her owner had...
PARAGLIDER CRASH
ABERYSTWYTH | 15 MAY
A paraglider, fearing that his flying partner had crashed into some cliffs, called 999. The crew of RNLI Aberystwyth's inshore rescue boat launched quickly, soon joined by the larger Atlantic 85 lifeboat....
Category: Articles
Delightful (2)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
A Pilot Wherry
WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
DURING the past year mounted charts showing the life-boat stations round the British Isles, with the signals to be used by vessels in distress, were sent to nearly ninety yacht clubs. It is proposed to continue the distribution of these...
Category: Articles
Thomas
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A schooner having been seen to run aground on the Dutchman's Bank during a N.W. wind and rough weather on the 20th August, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the Life-boat, placed here temporarily while the...
A Raft
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that three boys were adrift on a raft off Arklow beach, and that a man had swum to them, but had returned to the shore for help. At 6.7 the life...
A Power Boat
The front cover photograph of this issue of THE LIFEBOAT, reproduced here, sums up the work of the lifeboat crews - a survivor in good hands and on his wayto safety ashore.
This service, by both of Portsmouth (Langstone...