LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (2)
Eight-hour tow in winds up to Force 9 Rosslare Harbour Ireland Division Rosslare Harbour's Arun class St Brendan was at sea for twelve hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 12 August 1988 when a yacht found herself in trouble more than 50...
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths.
August The Earl of Bradford who had been president of Newport (Shropshire) branch since its formation in 1972.
September Norman Williams,...
Category: Obituaries
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fund raisers on the Isle of Anglesey stepped up their efforts last year and increased their income from £ 1 1 .(XX) in 1977 to £15,(XX) in 1978. Part of this increase was made possible by the gift of two water colours painted and...
Category: Donations
Heather
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
In deep water
Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...
Category: Articles
Summity and Gronland
JULY 25TH. - DOVER, KENT. A 3.10 P.M. the Sandgate coastguard reported that a vessel which had been attacked by German aeroplanes was sinking off Sandgate, but said that naval motor boats were going to her help. At 3.30 P.M. it was reported...
Swallow
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 12.26 a.m. on i2th July, 1967, a red flare was reported near Barton-on-Sea. At 1.43 the life-boat. The Earl and Countess Howe, slipped her moorings. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found a small fishing boat...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
Category: Articles
A Vampire Jet Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
A Boat
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—At 10^50 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1948, information was received that a man.
who had left harbour alone in the early hours to line-fish, had not returned.
He was seventy...