LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy, Rowing Boat and Motor Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At 12.37 P-m- on 28th July, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties two and a half miles north-east of the station.
Three other youths...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...
Category: Articles
B.D.26
Clovelly, Devon. At 6.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, a local fisherman called attention to the fact that a small motor boat, which had left the harbour on a routine visit to visit lobster pots, was no longer in sight. A...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1957. 151 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 39 times and rescued 45 lives.
FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR ROCKS Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 10.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1957, the Kilkeel coastguard...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat and a Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.5 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the St. Albans Head coastguard that a motor boat was two miles south- west by west of the Head. There was no sign of...
The Lifeboat Service— Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following two items were first published in THE LIFEBOAT of February, 1935.
Stories of a Life-boat Day.
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors...
Category: Articles
An R.A.F. Rescue Launch and a Dinghy From a Wellington Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
Soon after six in the morning the coastguard reported that a dinghy from a Wellington aeroplane had been seen nearly nine miles from Skegness pier. A strong south-easterly wind of...
Halronell (2)
On the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell ran aground off the Irish coast. The Rosslare Harbour, Kilrnore and Arklow life-boats all put out. A full account of this service appears on page 198..
Charing Cross, and The Normandy 2
NOVEMBER 28TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat J. W. Archer was out on exercise.
She saw the tug Charing Cross, with two empty hoppers in tow, enter the Tees, and the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
Category: Articles