LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Westo II
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.18 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1956, the St. Just coastguard reported that a yacht had been sighted off the Long- ships circling but with her engines running. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at...
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DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...
Enterprise
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Divas Head. At 2.14 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched in a...
Boy Bryn
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT ALL NIGHT Khyl, Flintshire. At 10.38 on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a call had been received for help from the motor fishing vessel Boy Bryn...
Splendour
SICK MAN ABOARD Lerwick, Shetlands. Shortly after midnight on the 3Oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Splendour, seventy-five miles eastby- north of Lerwick, had a sick...
Cover Picture
The Queen, accompanied by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I-, Commander F. R. H. Swarm, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (right), and Mr. C. G. Rickett, president of the Leander Club, Henley, disembarking from The Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley on 17th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valiant
Anstruther, Fife - At 3.12 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, news was received that a yacht had been seen flying distress signals off Fifeness. The life-boat The Doctors was launched at 3.30 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
Girvan Centenary
The centenary commemoration of the Girvan branch was held at Girvan harbour on 2 ist July, 1965, when the centenary vellum was presented by Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, M.A., F.L.A.S., chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish...
Category: Articles
Mary Roberts
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Roberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
Books
The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
Category: Articles