LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ex-naval Pinnace
WATERLOGGED PINNACE At 7.14 p.m. on ifth October, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen off Dimlington. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 7.25 in a moderate southerly breeze and moderate sea....
First Gold Medal for Ten Years
FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (39)
MARCH 26TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but an R.A.F. launch picked up two of her crew, who died later, and the three others were believed to have been trapped in the aeroplane. -...
An Anson Aeroplane (3)
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson trainer aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 7s..
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 2 2ND. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had crashed n the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £32 7s. 6d..
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
Scorpion
LIFE-BOAT, HELICOPTER AND MOTOR BOATS GO TO YACHT Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he could see a sailing dinghy aground in Portmadoc estuary, and...
Juan Therese
At 11.13 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, a yacht was seen firing distress signals in the vicinity of the Tongue sands. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20 in a strong south south westerly wind and...
Valerian
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1956, a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a yacht had just entered Dartmouth and had reported that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble...
The 26-feet Auxiliary Yawl Shona
Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...