LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IP a motor boat could speak, the Beaumaris motor Life - boat, which should reach her station shortly after this article is in print, would be able to make a boast which few of her sister boats could equal, and which should prove a source of...

Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.

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THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...

The Life-boat Two Sisters proceeded from this port on the 22nd October, and saved the crew of the schooner Mary, of Laxey, during a strong gale from N.N.W. and a heavy sea; the service was promptly rendered in a manner highly creditable to...

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 28th October the Life-boat Joseph Anstice put off in a very heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of nine men, from the Swedish brig Alice, which was totally wrecked under Bamborough...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—20th September. A small yacht had capsized, but a rowing boat from Penarthrescued the crew.—Rewards, £5 3s.

[An account of the rescue by the small boat will appear in the next number of The...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Sea Venom aircraft with a crew of two had ex- ploded in the air off Lilstock one mile from the shore....

The third edition of First Aid, the authorised manual of the St John Ambulance Association, St Andrew's Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society, is available from the RNLI Headquarters, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W...