LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chairman's Message
Chairman's Message The year 1969—the last year of the nineteen-sixties—has been another year of records in terms of services carried out, lives saved and revenue raised. It has also brought us tragedy and sadness, but not without adding...
Category: Articles
Snark
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.59 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht, which was drifting east- ward broadside on to the wind, appeared to be disabled about two miles from Birling Gap. The...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring...
Solent Shirl
Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.36 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to be drifting two miles south of Anvil lighthouse.
At 6.55 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched...
A Sailing Boat
HELICOPTER RESCUE FROM SAILING BOAT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were clinging to an overturned sailing boat three miles north-east of the...
Two Sailing Dinghies
OVERTURNED DINGHIES At 11.44 a.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht in the direction of Penrhos Bay appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter had been alerted and had already set out. The...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 11.50 a.m. on I5th February, 1966, the honorary secretary received an urgent call from the doctor at Bunbeg asking for the assistance of the life-boat W. M. Tihon. A young girl on Tory Island had acute appendicitis...
Guiding Light
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...
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JANUARY 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.20 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the life-boat station (on Inishmore Island) was told that a girl on the island was dangerously ill and that the only chance of saving her life was to take her at...
Ducking and Diving
Earlier this year, the people of Portstewart, Northern Ireland, celebrated St Patrick's day with their annual sponsored Duck Dive. Participants jumped or dived into a nearby intertidal basin, many of them wearing fancy dress. The event,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs