LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NO ONE FOUND At 10.1 a.m. on 26th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a naval aircraft had crashed in Lyme bay and asked the life-boat to search for survivors. The sea was choppy with a gentle south-westerly...
Moira
Seaham, Co. Durham - At 1.14 p.m.
on 14th December, 1968, it was learnt that the crew of a boat were waving a red flag south of the harbour entrance. At 1.20 the life-boat Will and Fanny Kirby was...
Porthdinllaen -- West Division
Porthdinllaen -- West Division Porthdinllaen (non Welsh speakers can try 'Porth-incline' as a rough approximation) is home to a slipway-launched Tyne. The station's remote location, in a small cove on the north-west coast of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wanderlust
Plymouth, Devon. At 10.13 p.m.
on 16th July, 1965, Breakwater Fort reported seeing a small boat flashing distress signals south of Mewstone. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 10.29 i° a light...
Kenneth William and Mor-Nita
Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...
A Dinghy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.45 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a dinghy was drifting one and a half miles south-south-east of Portland Bill, and at 6.0 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland...
Faith
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 6.24 a.m. on 12th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that a distress signal had been sighted south west of Breaksea point. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris slipped her moorings at 6.50. There was a...
A Ketch
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12.15 p.m. on 10th December, 1967, the honorary secretary learnt that a boat was in difficulties about half a mile east of the lookout.
The life-boat Khami slipped her moorings at...
Lifeboat Painting
The well-known artist, Ben Maile, who has been selected as one of Britain's top ten artists by the Fine Art Guilds for the past three years, has painted a new painting of the St Ives lifeboat at sea. An edition limited to 600 of signed...
Category: Articles
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...