LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat and a Rowing Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1956, the second coxswain reported that he had seen a sailing boat capsize about a mile and a half from Castle Point. The life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
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GIRLS RESCUED Ilfracombe, Devon. At 7.55 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the police reported that two girls, missing from Lee Bay, were believed to be trying to walk to Ilfracombe around the rocks. A helicopter was airborne and at 8.10 the...
Amethyst
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.^At 5.45 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Amethyst, of Buckie, which had a crew of nine, had run ashore on Trodday Island at the north end of Skye....
A Dinghy
GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
Homeland
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — At 2.40 in the morning of the 28th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat, which was at anchor in Clanyard Bay, appeared to be in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs was...
Father Neptune at Herne Bay
A fortnight's celebrations of the centenary of Herne Bay last August concluded with life-boat day. Father Neptune, impersonated by Captain J. Irvine H. Friend, M.C., J.P., the chairman of the Margate branch, arriving in the Margate motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Francis
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
While the life-boat Grace Darling was escorting the royal barge during the visit of H.M. the Queen and H.R.H.
the Duke of Edinburgh to Holy Island on the 29th of June,...
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.
Amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Hildegard
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in need of help half a mile south-west of Beachy Head. At 7.25 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache...