LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
MAN WINCHED ABOARD At 10.50 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with three men aboard had been swamped at Lligwy beach. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 10.57 to search for the rowing boat....
A Motor Boat
Kirkcudbright.—At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 20th of February, 1954, the Ross Island lighthouse keeper reported that a motor boat was drifting on the ebb tide. The coxswain had also seen her, and at 6.15 the life-boat J....
A Motor Boat
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 28th August, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that some anxiety was felt for a local fisherman,who had last been seen to the westward of St. Abbs in his small motor boat....
A Rowing Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. On the morn- ing of the 29th of January, 1958, the coxswain saw a rowing boat with three men on board in difficulties. They had gone out to the sandbanks off the mouth of the River Ogwen to collect mussels. With the...
Life-Boat Accidents
THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 25th July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy had capsized three miles south-east of the boathouse.
The life-boat Watkin Williams...
A Fishing Boat
A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...
A Motor Boat (3)
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A motor boat with six people onboard had been reported adrift, but it reached land unaided. - Rewards, £7 10s.
A R.A.F. Helicopter (1)
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...
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services