LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venus
SAILING FAMILY RESCUED Dover, Kent. At 5.34 p.m. on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, a message was received that a yacht was in difficulties and was trying to make the harbour in a fresh to strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...
Mrs Reed at Cromer
Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, who in 1967 gave the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed in memory of her late husband, Mr. A.
E. Reed, of Stamford, Lincolnshire (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1967),...
Category: Articles
Monhegan
At 6.10 p.m. on 2gth October, 1966, red flares were reported two miles north east of Tankerton. There was a moderate wind from the north east with a slight seaand rain squalls. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) launched at 6...
Ema
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1965, the St. Just coastguard told the coxswain that a ship had reported seeing mattresses in the sea five miles south-east of Tater Du lighthouse. The mattresses were possibly from the missing...
Golden Arrow
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was learned from the coastguard that the local fishing smack Golden Arrow, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of two, had not been seen since, and after...
An Airbed
Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
Ballymena Round Table
Four members o/Ballymena Round Table took it in turns to water-ski across the Irish Sea from Cushendall to Southend, near Campbeltown.
It took them 2% hours and they raised £675 in sponsorship for Ballymena branch.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High Hopes
Engine failed MEMBERS OF REDCAR ILB CREW, Standing by in the boathouse on Thursday morning, June 10, sighted, at 1000, a red flare beyond Saltscar Buoy some three miles east of the ILB station.
The ILB was launched at 1005...
Moray Firth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.-—At eleven •o'clock on the night of the 26th of November, 1952, the South Gare light- house keeper telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on the training wall in the River Tees, and that tugs which had been...
Dr. Kenealy and Eva
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th October the trawler Dr. Kenealy, of Hull, when about 150 miles from the Humber, found the Russian schooner Eva, of Abo, dismasted, and abandoned by her crew. She took her in tow, and two of the...