LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ard Carna (3)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
A Generous Gesture
LAST November Matthew Clarkson, second coxswain of the Lytham life- boat, disappeared while shrimping in the Ribble estuary. The crew of the Lytham life-boat received £2 10s. each A* in rewards from the Institution for searching for...
Category: Services
A Washington Aircraft (2)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles
Honoria and a Coble
SALTBURN, YORKSHIRE.—The Coastguard having reported a vessel stranded near Marske on the morning of the 9th January, the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched at 4.40 in a heavy sea and pulled in the direction indicated. In approaching the...
A Fishing Boat
Margate, Kent. —At 12.17 in the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting three and. a half miles north- north-east of the pier. A strong north- north-west...
A Lancaster Bomber
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a Lancaster bomber, which had a crew of eight, was in distress forty-six miles south-east of Kirkabister Lighthouse. At 3.19 the...
A Speed Boat
Parachutist saved - with dry feetj Clacton lifeboatmen were involved in a most unusual service on 27 June, when they rescued a young woman parachutist while she was still airborne! The station's Atlantic 21 was called out when a...
To Raise Money for the Nottinghamshire Appeal Andrew Foss a Young Shoreline
To raise money for the Nottinghamshire appeal, Andrew Foss, a young Shoreline member, had the idea of painting an outline 33ft Brede lifeboat on a piece of hardboard.
He and his friend Adrian Hall (they are both 12 years... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs