LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AS SPEEDBOAT TOWS DINGHY Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three men in a 14-foot dinghy were signalling for help half a mile east...

LIFE-BOAT models and equipment have been exhibited at the Welsh Industries Fair, in Cardiff, and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's Empire Week Show in Belfast, and the Institution's exhibition of photographs has been shown at...

ELECTRICIANS TAKEN OFF LIGHT IN GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 14th December, 1962, the motor mechanic was told by the docks manager that two maintenance electricians were on Wyre light on routine maintenance work....

MORE LOBSTER FISHERS IN DISTRESS Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At about 1.15 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1947, the civic guard reported that the salmon yawl Morning Star, of Helvick, which had been lobster fishing, was in...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...

America too, is helping the British Life-boat Service. A lady in California, who had been "thrilled indeed to read of the heroic deeds of those saving lives around dear old England" sent £49. 9. A gift of £6. 13 has come...

BALLYWALTER, IRELAND.—On the 13th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were perceived on Skullmartin Reef. The Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynell was promptly manned and proceeded to the reef, where she found the schooner Lady Land,...

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