LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Open boat swamped TYNE COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station at 1659 on Saturday September 10, 1983, that a small boat was in difficulties a quarter of a mile inside the south pier. It was a squally...
A Halifax Aeroplane
MARCH 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.30 at night, the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the R.A.F. at St. David’s that a Halifax aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west by...
A Rowing Boat
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...
Calshot (Above): Every Five Months Or So 40001 Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Is Slipped on a Sunday Mid-Day Tide to Be Cleaned Below the Waterline
Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 5.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a dinghy with a crew of two was reported to have capsized one mile east of Mugglins.
At 5.15 the life-boat Dunleary II left her moorings in a strong westerly...
A Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 1st August, 1939, three men, visitors to Moelfre, who were out in a rowing boat, got into difficulties in the strong tide. They signalled for help. The weather was fine, with a moderate S.W. wind and a slight sea....
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat, is presented by Rosemary Quig/ey, daughter of the deputy launching authority; with them is Mr Clayton Love, a vice-president of the RNLI.
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat (5)
8th July.
A small boat had been stolen from Cleethorpes, and with three people on board was feared to be drifting out to sea. The boat was found and the life-boat recalled.—Permanent crew.
—Rewards,...
A Sailing Smack
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— 20th October. A sailing smack had sunk, but her crew took to their boat and were picked up by another smack.
—Rewards, Lowestoft, £19 19s. 6d.; Kessingland, £23 8s....
A Rescue at Gibraltar
WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..
Category: Donations