LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Winaway of Lowestoft
Caister, Norfolk - At 11.27 a.m. on llth August, 1969, it was learnt that the motor vessel Norwich Belle had sighted a fishing vessel in difficulties near the South Caister shoal buoy.
The life-boat Royal Thames was...
On Saturday July 2 Port St.Mary Lifeboat the 54' Arun the Cough Ritchie Went to the Help of a Small Boat Reported Drifting With a Fouled Propeller on to the Rocks Belo
On Saturday, July 2 Port St Mary lifeboat, the 54' Arun The Cough Ritchie, went to the help of a small boat reported drifting with a fouled propeller on to the rocks below Ronaldsway Flying Club, about eight miles north east of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A British Anson Aeroplane (2)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE. A British Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea and both life-boats were launched. The Aberystwyth boat put out without waiting for the secondcoxswain and assistant...
Mr. Alfred Belk, Hartlepool
Mr. Alfred Belk, of Hartlepool, an alderman, borough recorder, town clerk and justices' clerk, who died on 4th December, 1937, at the age of eighty- four, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Hartlepool station five years...
Category: Obituaries
Beal Inse, of Dublin
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 5.15 p.m.
on 15th May, 1967, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Beal Inse of Dublin was in urgent need of assistance two miles southwest of Valentia. The...
A British Anson Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 15TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by a steamer. - Rewards, £8 4s..
Ella (1)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
Avon Star
OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At eight at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore beside the coastguard station one mile north of Peterhead.
The sea was smooth, but there were patches of...
Obituary. Sir John Cameron Lamb
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
Category: Obituaries
Ellen Owens, of Cardigan
On the 12th December, in a heavy gale from S.S.W., the smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan, at anchor in Fishguard Bay, was observed to be driving, and to have a signal of distress hoisted. The Fishguard life-boat was soon launched, and proceeded...