LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Overheard on a Bus
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
Category: Articles
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...
Points Castle, of Swansea
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.—- At 12.45 P.M. on the 21st June a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks on the east side of the Old Head of Kinsale. The sea was smooth but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat...
Volunteer and Sarah Davies
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
Dragonfly
Torbay, Devon.-—Early in the after- noon, on the 26th of September, 1950, the Berry Head coastguard reported a small motor boat apparently broken down. The occupants were waving to attract attention. At 2.5 the life-boat George Shee put out...
BOOTS, BOATS AND BUCKETS
Our energetic supporters have stuffed their yellow wellies with cash, cheered hundreds of tiny boats along the Thames and tearfully abandoned their favourite drinks, in an action-packed season of fundraising.<...
Category: Articles
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Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...
Category: Obituaries
Turpina
Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...