LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
In brief BRANCHES in North Wales had a busy Summer - Holyhead ladies raised £1,200 from the sale souvenirs and Volvo draw tickets at the Anglesey show; Llandudno branch raised £1,150 from collection boxes and souvenirs at an...
Category: Articles
Fairy Brae
On the afternoon of the 24th October the Curracloe coastal watch reported that a boat in North Bay was flying a distress signal. A moderate S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea and driving rain. The motor life-boat K.E...
Heathery Brae
ESCORT FOR TWO Buckle, Banffshire. At 4.55 p.m. on 16th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the seine net fishing boat Heathery Brae was in difficulties eight miles north-north-east of Buckie. The sea was very...
Boy Eric
Exmouth, South Devon - At 10.7 p.m. on I2th June, 1966, it was reported that red flares had been sighted about two miles off Orcombe point. The lifeboat Michael Stevens left her moorings at 10.20 in a moderate to fresh south south easterly...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869
THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...
Category: Annual Reports
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(The figures refer to the numbtrt of the Life-boats detailed on pages 610-621.) Aberdovfy, Merioneth, 166. Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 128. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 32. Abersoch, Carrarvon, 170 Dm lin, Ireland, 267. ...
Category: Donations
Rescue on the Bar
MR. SIDNEY HOOK, a local pilot and member of the inshore rescue scheme at Teignmouth, Devon, has been awarded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, and Mr. Samuel G. Hook and Mr. James P. Boyne have been presented with vellum...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE VARIETY OF SERVICES which modern lifeboat crews may be called upon to perform were clearly illustrated by awards made during the period under review in this number of THE LIFEBOAT.
On one occasion the West Mersea...
Category: Articles
Classified Advertisements
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Category: Advertisement
The Boy
Shortly after 11 A.M. on the 5th October a small boat was observed about four miles to the N.E.of Buckie Harbour, evidently in dis- tress. By aid of glasses it was seen that the sail had been blown away and that the occupant was holding up...