LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Richard
PORTHDINLLAEN, CARNARVONSHIRE. — The schooner Eichard, of Nefyn, bound from the Scilly Islands for Carnarvon, in ballast, showed signals of distress, being in danger, while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay during half a gale of wind, and a...
Evelyn and Margaret , Hilda, and Premier
Nov. 3RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
Three local fishing cobles were at sea. The wind was light from the S.E., but the sea was very rough. At 12.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched and found the coble...
An Aeroplane (34)
MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.
Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor...
A Helicopter (1)
Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...
Prison Talk Brings Cheque
The R.N.L.I. last year received a cheque for £18 10s. 9d. from the Governor of H.M. Prison for Women, Wilmslow. This amount was raised at a sale of work held in aid of the Institution, and the items sold were made by those in Barker...
Category: Donations
A Vessel (23)
JULY 2ND. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel had been reported on fire six miles S.E by S. of Berry Head, but the Torbay life-boat could find nothing. Next day the life-boats at Exmouth and Torbay were launched to a vessel reported to be...
Silver Queen
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Torbay, Devon. At 5.4 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Torbay that a boat near Thatcher rock needed help. The...
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
Buzzard
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously...
Mrs Osman Gabriel
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries