LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Black Bird
On 24th April, during fine weather, the Life-boat Albert Edward saved the small cutter yacht Slack Bird and her two occupants.
The vessel stranded on the Buxey Sands during the night and lost her...
Nimble-Iki
TRIMARAN OVERDUE Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 3 p.m.
on 10th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trimaran named Nimble-Iki was overdue.
There was a thick fog with a smooth sea...
Sailing Dinghies (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 20th August,1961, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that at least ten sailing dinghies of the Shoreham yacht club had capsized during a local regatta. At four o'clock the...
A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT BEACHED Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.58 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat south of the lookout had broken down. The coxswain studied the boat's position...
Two New Appointments
MAJOR JAMES DISLEY has been ap- pointed District Organizing Secretary for the north-west of England. Major Disley, who is aged 43, was educated at the Sorbonne and Louvain Univer- sity. He served in the Intelligence Corps and later in the...
Category: Committee
All lifeboats great and small
Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
Category: Articles
The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey
IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (39)
DEC. 8TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reportedin difficulties, but she was only signalling a steamer by rocket. - Rewards, £7 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (42)
DEC. 18TH. - CROMER, SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she could not be found. - Rewards : Cromer, £39 13s. 6d. ; Sheringham, £37 14s. Wells, £30 9s. 6d..