LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (3)
JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 4.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a waterlogged boat about a mile S.W. of the coastguard station. The sea was slight with moderate S.W wind blowing. At 4.28 P.M.
the motor life-boat Cyril...
A Canoe
Cromer, Norfolk.—2nd August, 1938.
A bather had got into difficulties at Walcot Gap, and two men who had put out in a canoe were lost and the bather had been saved before the life-boat could reach them.—Rewards, £9 Is....
Jeffrey Holland and Felix Bowness (Centre I and R)
Jeffrey Holland and Felix Bowness (centre I and r) look it in turns to draw the 13 tickets while David Green (I), RNLI co-ordinaton'special duties, spun the drum. With them fr) is Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carrying On.
In November the Institution sent its usual letter to all Mayors asking for their help in holding life-boat days in 1941. Mayor after Mayor, from places which have been heavily bombed - the London boroughs, Coventry and Birmingham among them ...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane
On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
Susan Vittery
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard reported that there appeared to be a three- masted schooner on the revetment, abreast of C.13 buoy River...
Westo II
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.18 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1956, the St. Just coastguard reported that a yacht had been sighted off the Long- ships circling but with her engines running. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at...
None (12)
DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...
Enterprise
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Divas Head. At 2.14 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched in a...
Boy Bryn
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT ALL NIGHT Khyl, Flintshire. At 10.38 on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a call had been received for help from the motor fishing vessel Boy Bryn...