LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Technology Update for ILC Delegates
(Continued from page 202) hammers and crowbars to break windows and glass partitions, aluminium ladders, harnesses, slings, folding basket stretchers and as many portable lights as possible.
Delegates were also able to draw...
Category: Meetings
Northern Ireland
THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...
Category: Articles
Two R.A.F. Motor Boats
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland.— 21st February. Two R.A.F. motor boats had been reported making for Berwick. It was thought they would have difficulty in crossing the bar, but they ran for shelter elsewhere.—Rewards, £7 6s....
Louisa
TENBY.—During a strong gale from the S.E. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 1st January, 1888, signals of distress were shown by the ketch Louisa, of Cardiff, bound for Tenby with a cargo of coal, which was lying at anchor in Caldy Koads...
Lindfar and Catherine
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 11.30 A.M. on the 3rd February the fishing boats Lindfar and Catherine, of Eyemouth, were seen making for the harbour. A moderate to whole northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,and heavy snow...
An Aeroplane
Sheringbam, Norfolk.—On the 27th March, at the request of the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire, the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary put out to search for the Duchess of Bedford who, some days before, had set out on a short trip by...
Ancotts
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th of September, 1956, the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at Western Carricks and that two of her crew had been brought ashore by a motor launch. At 12.40 in the after- noon, the life-boat Edgar...
Carmela
Dungeness, Kent. At ten o'clock on the night of the 22nd of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small coaster was ashore half a mile north-east of the life-boat station with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel...
A Sailing Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—About 12.40 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat from Dungeness, with one man on board, appeared to be at anchor half a mile south by east of Fairlight Cove,...
Scadan
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1955, a message was received from Cahirciveen asking if the life-boat would search for the fishing boat Scadan, of Tralee, which had not returned from...