LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Boats Sea Witch and Veronica, and a Catamaran
At 12.58 p.m. on i6th October, 1966, a small catarmaran with an elderly man on board was seen in difficulties half a mile north west of the coastguard look-out.
The man appeared to be exhausted. The life-boat Elizabeth...
A Landing Craft
JANUARY 10TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE, AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
A landing craft had been reported missing, but nothing was found. Then bodies were washed ashore. The landing craft had foundered in a gale and all her crew of...
A Steamer (32)
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A heavy explosion had been heard from a steamer and she was found lying on her side, but no sign of her crew was found. They must all have been lost. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.
A Steamer (16)
APRIL 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A steamer had been attacked and badly damaged, and her crew had abandoned her, but they were picked up by the examination vessel and a tug. - Rewards, £4 15s. 6d.
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at the Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western Mail.
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at The Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
As Was Reported In the December, 1967, Issue of the Life-Boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a Member of the IRB Crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler
As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Sweet William Continued from Page 95
fectly and they departed full of smiles, I suspect of relief, and only charged a nominal fee.
Hatherleigh Market was close by so I asked the market RSPCA inspector to check William; he was reported in excellent...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...
Gallant and Successful Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew By a Student
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
Category: Articles