LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JANUARY 18TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Flares had been reported, but the life-boats found nothing, although a Lowestoft drifter said that she had seen an aeroplane dropping...
A Flying-Boat
JAN. 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX.
A flying-boat had been reported down and in distress. but later it was learned that she was safely at anchor, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.-Rewards, £16 5s....
Ex-Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney
EX-MOTOR MECHANIC THOMAS SLINEY, who for nearly 20 years served in that capacity with the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, died on 23rd October, 1966.
He was awarded the silver medal in 1936 and the bronze medal in 1943...
Category: Obituaries
The Silver Jubilee Naval Review
ON 16th July the King reviewed the fleet at Spithead, as part of the cele- brations of his Silver Jubilee. The motor life-boats from Yarmouth and Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight, were on duty throughout the day, under the command of the...
Category: Articles
Helen
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the harbour authorities reported a yacht on the Lighthouse Bank, one and three-quarter miles north of the life- boat station, and at 7.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Fishing Vessels and two R.A.F. Pinnaces
NORTH-EAST ENGLAND Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.15 a.m.
on 4th November, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that ten fishing vessels were at sea in worsening weather conditions. By 1.25 p.m. the wind had increased to...
A Steamer (6)
24th February. A steamer sent out an SOS, but cancelled it after the life- boats had left. The chief inspector of life-boats and the district inspector of life-boats were on board the Teesmouth life-boat. The life-boat crews at Runswick,...
The Mumbles: IN MEMORY OF TIM
In October, more than 50 people met at The Mumbles Lifeboat Station to raise money in memory of RNLI supporter Tim Mahoney, who sadly passed away last year.
Tim loved cycling and completed a Ride to the Somme charity bike ride...
Category: Articles
Daisy (1)
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
Susie
During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.
and within a few minutes the...