LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.50 on the evening of the 17th June, 1961,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an eleven-feet dinghy, with a doctor and his son on board, was adrift about a mile and a half north-east of Rhos...
Reunion at Torbay In May for Five Retired Coxswains and One Retired Motor Mechanic (I to R) Coxswain Frederick Sanders Motor Mechanic Richard Harris Coxswain
Reunion at Torbay in May for five retired coxswains and one retired motor mechanic.
(I. to r.) Coxswain Frederick Sanders, Motor Mechanic Richard Harris, Coxswain Henry Thomas, Coxswain Abraham Bartlett, Coxswain Harold... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat (4)
Clovelly, Devon. At 9.20 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a small sailing boat, which had beet under observation since 6.30 but had made no distress signals, was drifting off Clovelly. The...
Rapid
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.30 p.m.
on 3rd June, 1965, the motor fishing vessel Rapid was reported overdue. The coxswain contacted Ballycotton lighthouse in order to find out if they could see the Rapid. The lighthouse...
Adventure
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At 7.30 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, the life-boat coxswain returned from sea and reported that wind and sea were rising. He kept watch. At 8.20 the coastguard rang up to say that two cobles were...
Pinda
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 8.22 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Pinda had left Mullion at three o'clock to go on a fishing trip between Mullion and Penzance. There were three people,...
An Aeroplane (72)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
Hesperus
CROMER.—On the 10th April the Cromer Life-boat was launched during an easterly gale and rough sea, and proceeded to the sloop Hesperus, of Copen-hagen, which had shown signals of distress when about three miles from the Life-boat Station. On...
None (2)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.
6 was launched at 10.15 in...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Someone from the Vale of Glamorgan telephoned the Cardiff office to ask for a collecting box for her daughter's birthday party. She and her husband were worried by the fashion that expects bigger and bigger presents from guests invited...
Category: Donations