LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
September (1)
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services
Two Small Boats
APRIL 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported two small boats drifting three miles south-west of the South Stack. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 4.10 in a light...
A Dinghy (1)
APRIL 7TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
Two men in a dinghy were missing, but nothing could be found. A donation was made to the Institution by Wrekin College and a gift from it was made by the Institution to the life-boat crew in...
Fishermen Return Rewards.
Five fishermen of Silloth, Cumberland, as they came back from their fishing, saw an aeroplane crash in the sea, went to its help, and rescued the airmen.
The Institution sent them rewards, but they returned them, saying:...
Category: Articles
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OCTOBER 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE, AND DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed several miles inland. One of the crew was killed, but the other had baled out. He was carried to the coast and came down in...
Shannon on station
The Shannon class – a new generation of all-weather lifeboat – is now ready to rescue after the first station lifeboat went on service at Dungeness, Kent.
The lifeboat, designed in-house by RNLI naval architects, harnesses...
Category: Articles
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services from Page 12
1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
Category: Services
Eliza, of Middlesborough
on 16th Dec., saved 7 men from the brig Eliza, of Middlesborough..
Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
on 6th March, saved 4 men from the schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgwater.