LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
RNLI to Benefit from a Commercial Card
The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
Category: Advertisement
Three Fishing Cobles
On the 3rd November, the Scarborough life-boat put off three times and brought safely into port three fishing cobles and their *crews, consisting of 9 men, during a strong N.N.W. wind and a heavy sea. The cobles were re- turning from their...
Floreat II
Arbroath, Angus.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 26th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Floreat II was still at sea, and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The Floreat II wire-lessed that she...
Drakkar
INJURED ON TRAWLER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.55 p.m. on igth January, 1965, Waterford Harbour Commissioners were informed by Land's End radio station that there was a badly injured man with a cut artery on board the French...
Sunderland Life-Boat Rescues Crew of Fishing Vessel
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Category: Photographs
Gannet
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 11.30 on the night of the 17th of May, 1952, the police reported that the local motor launch Gannet had left Tresco with passengers at 10.30 but had not reached St. Mary's. The sea was smooth, the...
Two Fishing Cobles
FDey, Yorkshire. At 12.44 on the after- noon of the 6th of February, 1961, the coxswain decided in the absence of the honorary secretary to launch the life- boat as two fishing cobles were still at sea and the weather had...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the St. John Ambulance Brigade rang up to say that their motor boat Flying Christine was going to the help of two people marooned on a rock in Moulin Huet Bay and...
Fisher
Walmer, Kent.—At 9.42 on the night of the 24th of June, 1954, a message was received that a yacht had broken down near the South Goodwin light- vessel. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 waslaunched. The sea was...