LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star of Freedom
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 8.11 p.m. on 9th May, 1967, it was learned that the fishing vessel Star of Freedom had engine trouble and was drifting seven miles south by east of Portpatrick. The life-boat Henry Blogg, on temporary duty at...
A Sailing Boat
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.
At 8.30 at night information was received from the Clontarf Sailing Club that a small sailing boat was in difficulties at the mouth of the river. A strong westerly gale was blowing,...
Lerina
Clovelly, Devon.—Shortly before halfpast eight in the morning of the 14th March the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned that a small cabin cruiser was flying what appeared to be a large red flag, and was drifting S.W. two miles from...
Pandora
At 5.25 p.m. on 3oth August, 1965, the police at Withernsea reported that a small vessel was firing red flares one and a half miles east of Withernsea. There was a moderate to fresh westerly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat City of...
Peterhead:
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Oil Rig
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil...
Admiral Lord Beatty Decorating Coxswain Swan, of Lowestoft
Sitting from left to right are: Sir Ernest Glover, Bt. (President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom), Lord Waldegrave, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and Mr. Joseph Conrad. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Aeroplanes
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938.
Two aeroplanes had been reported to have come down in the sea, but a search in which another plane joined revealed nothing. The honorary secretary of the station and district inspector...
Frida Blokzijl (1)
FIVE RESCUED FROM DUTCH COASTER On the 7th March, 1962, the Cloughey, Co. Down, life-boat rescued five men from the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl. A full account of this service, for which Coxswain Walter Semple was awarded the bronze medal...
Crossword Results
The prize winners of the July life-boat crossword, which concludes the series, were: 1st, Mrs. L. S. Lamb, Broadway, Worcester, 2nd, W. P. Dobson, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and 3rd, Mrs. B. R. Ostler, Loughton, Essex.
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