LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DECEMBER 23RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Flares had been reported but nothing could be found, and it was thought that they had been dropped by an aeroplane. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £4...
Elsquir
YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael...
Clyde and Harbinger
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
The Merlin Sailing Dinghy Punch
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that during racing held by a local yacht club a Merlin sailing dinghy, the Punch, had capsized one and a half miles south- west-by-west of...
Two Sisters (2)
JUNE 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.23 P.M the coastguard reported a fishing boat showing signals of distress off Newbiggin. As the Newbiggin life-boat was off service, the Blyth motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was...
Rnlb Foresters Future
RNLB Foresters Future, the 33ft Brede lifeboat stationed at Alderney for 12 months station evaluation trials, was named on July 19 at the RNLI Poole depot quay during Poole Open Days by Mrs Renee Roddie. After a demonstration trip, Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Year's Halfpennies
FOR the sixth year running the Institu- tion has received from a lady in Hamp- stead the gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbers 216, or nine shillings..
Category: Donations
Amber Queen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 14th of Decem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were being fired from a vessel near Fersness Point, Isle of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly...
A Dinghy (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat on 19th August went to the aid of a dinghy in difficulties off Whitecliffe point.
The IRB was launched at 1.50 p.m. in a moderate south westerly wind with a rough...