LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jules Josephine, of Reyneville
On the 22nd August, the French smack Jules Josephine, of Reyneville, was totally wrecked on the Doom Bar Sands. It was blowing a heavy gale from W.N.W. at the time. The City of Bristol life-boat, Albert Edward, so named after H.K.H. the...
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Category: Advertisement
(Right) Noisy and Spectacular
(right) Noisy and spectacular - one of the Coastguard's helicopters arrived each day to give spectators a close-up of transfers to and from an Atlantic off the depot quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Lucy
RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.—On the morning of the 16th February, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was called out to the assistance of a small yacht—the Lady Lucy, of Liverpool — in distress ashore outside the bar. She left Liverpool the previous...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th February, 1885.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
St. Brendan
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1949, a Bannow fisherman telephoned that a boat was in difficulties about nine miles west of Kilmore Quay. One of the life-boat's ' carriage-tracks was dis- mantled...
Disaster at St. Ives. Seven Life-Boatmen Lost
THREE minutes before two in the morn- ing of 23rd January. 1939, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a dangerous position two miles N.N...
Category: Services
Ben Glas
INJURED HAND At 6.30 a.m. on 2gth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was on board the trawler Ben Glas a crew member whose hand had been severed and was bleeding profusely.
The Ben Glas...
Ben Lucy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10 a.m. on 24th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was firing red flares one mile east of Shoreham harbour. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 10.7 in a fresh to...
Notes of the Quarter
A MAJOR new boat building programme was decided upon by the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, at its February meeting. As anA Sister's Thanks The following is an extract from a letter received by Captain J. B. Jones, O.B.E.,...
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