LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Cruiser
TOW BY LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Life-boat on passage. On the 13th July, 1962, the reserve life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was on passage from Kirkcudbright to Portpatrick. There was a light south-westerly breeze and a smooth sea. At 10.10 in the...
A Trawler (6)
JULY 21ST. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. in a dense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr....
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
A Cabin Cruiser (1)
West Mersea, Essex. At 4.15 p.m.
on 24th June, ^65, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was drifting down the river Blackwater past Stone.
At 4.20 the IRB launched in a strong gusting to near gale...
A Seafire Aircraft
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
The S.S. Prins Knud
FEBRUARY 2ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The S.S. Prins Knud, of Copenhagen, had stranded, but her crew would not leave her. - Rewards, £17 5s.
A Yacht (2)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht had capsized near Hartle- pool breakwater but added that there were other boats near by. The life-boat crew were...
A Cabin Cruiser
Only flare fired A RED FLARE fired from a position about 7 nautical miles south east of Berry Head was reported to Torbay honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 0609 on Wednesday, March 12. The 52' Barnett lifeboat Princess Alexandra of...
A R.A.F. Dinghy
'Abandoned' airman retrieved from dinghy Cullercoats East Division Lifeboats and helicopters are frequent partners in rescue missions, so there was nothing unusual in Cullercoat's C class inflatable working with a helicopter crew...
Y L a News
THE Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association is going from strength to strength as word gets about that a yachtsman who is not a member is like a ship without a rudder. As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, there is...
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