LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sky Lark and Fisher Lassie
During the night of the 31st July the Coastguard at Knab saw flares being burnt by a vessel in the South entrance. She was evidently drifting seaward. The Life-boat Station was warned, and the Motor Life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
A Close Shave!
A close shave! Councillor Alun Roberts surrendered his 22-year-old beard in aid of the RNLl and raised £244 for the Penarth branch. He is seen being shaved bv hairdresser Alan Jones. Among the witnesses were deputy launching authority... - View image in PDF
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Estelle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.40 p.m. on 22nd September, 1968, the garda informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a flare between the West pier and Howth. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 5 o'clock...
Gratitude
Walmer, Kent. At 2.16 on the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat had the ketch Gratitude, of 70 tons, in tow and that the two boats were drifting towards the Goodwin...
Defender
On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
Fishing Boats
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At...
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
A Storm Boat and a Dinghy
Easrney, Hampshire - At 7.2 p.m. on 19th April, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a stormboat with a number of skin divers aboard was in difficulties near the Horse Sand fort and was being driven out to sea by...
Roscairbre
BRONZE MEDAL AWARDED On I4th July, 1964, the Howth lifeboat rescued three men from the trawler Roscairbre in a southerly gale and rough seas. For this service, an account of which appears on page 196, the award of the bronze medal was made...
A Yacht (4)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the Outer Binks. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Bradford III was...