LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Climbing Crew
Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.
Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...
Category: Articles
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane
APRIL 29TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.45 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Appledore reported that an aeroplane had crashed, and a quarter of an hour later he asked for the life-boat to be sent to help naval and R.A.F....
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 52ft Arun ON 1062: Sept 25 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 2 (twice), 3 (twice), 5, 7, and 30 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 11,16, 30, Sept 6, 7, and Oct 3 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: Aug 2, 7, 21,...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1985
Lifeboat Services August, September and October, 1985 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: August 3, October 9 and 14 D class inflatable: October 9 and 14 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 4, 6,18, 21 (twice), 26, 28, 29, September 21 and...
Category: Services
The New Steam Life-Boat, "City of Glasgow."
THIS Life-boat, a full description of which was given in No. 171 of our Journal last February, was sufficiently far ad- vanced to attend the highly successful " Life - boat Saturday " demonstration which took place in Glasgow on...
Category: Articles
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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Launching Ceremonies of New Motor Life-Boats
Scarborough, Bomber (Spurn Point), Hartlepool, Selsey and Bognor, Sennen Cove, New Brighton.
DURING the summer of this year the launching ceremonies have taken place of six Motor Life-boats.
Category: Inaugurations
Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
Category: Articles
Yla Section
MEMBER MAKES SAVE MEMBER No. 4992-F, Mr. P. V. Wright, Newtownards, Co. Down, in his 28 ft converted ship's boat Wavechaser effected a dramatic rescue of three people in a stiff wind and heavy sea in Strangford Lough on 15th July. We...
Category: Articles