LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christina
BUMPING HEAVILY Margate, Kent. At 8.45 p.m. on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares off Foreness Point.
There was a choppy sea with a moderate...
Mary Robinson
Blyth, Northumberland. At 2.30 p.m. on I3th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three cobles fishing off Coquets were in difficulty owing to a deterioration in weather conditions. The life-boat Winston...
Press Award
It has been decided that in future reports of inshore rescue boat services also qualify for the Institution's annual press award for the best newspaper report of a life-boat service..
Category: Awards
Sea Flower and Brighter Dawn
Boulmer, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 12th July, 1961, con- cern was felt for two local fishing cobles Sea Flower and Brighter Dawn, which were overdue from fishing. The crews of other boats had reported on returning that...
A Punt
Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 9 p.m.
on 16th October, 1966, flares were seen on Innishmurray Island, Donegal Bay. Four Ballyshannon men had gone seal shooting earlier in the day and had not returned.
The...
Port Talbot
It is regretted that a gift made to the Port Talbot branch of £700 was inadvertently left out of the Supplement to Year Book 1967 listing branch collections for 1966..
Category: Branches
Experimental R/T Sets for IRBS
Nine inshore rescue boats are being fitted experimentally with very high frequency radio telephones. The boats selected are stationed at Bangor, Berwick- upon-Tweed, Bridlington, Eastney, Holyhead, The Mumbles, Southend-on- Sea, Torbay and...
Category: Articles
Merlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.20 a.m. on 2nd September, 1965, the signal station received a message from a yachtsman arriving in the harbour. He had seen red flares about three miles south of St. Martins Point. The life-boat Euphrosyne...
Tribute to Life-Boat Designer
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Melvin
Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...