LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, G.O.B., which took place, at the age of 83, at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, on Wednesday, Sep- tember 18th.
Sir Richard Hamilton...
Category: Obituaries
Too hot yacht
12 January: Lifeboats from Dun Laoghaire were called out shortly after midday to a yacht with a suspected fire onboard, probably due to an overheating engine. The lifeboat took the six crew members off the 11m...
Category: Articles
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services
Yachting & Boating Weekly
yachting boating weekly IN EVERY ISSUE All the lotest News which only a Newspaper can bring EVERY WEDNESDAY 1/6d SAIL & POWER Superb Colour Pictures Bool & Equipment tests Full Results 8 Club news I Inland Waterways Pages Tide Tobies...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...
Category: Articles
February (1)
CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
Category: Services
The S.S. Fort Medine
FEBRUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6.57 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been mined one and a quarter miles S.E. of Mumbles Head. The motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was launched at 7.15...
A Catamaran
Two crew rescued from disabled catamaran after rigging cut free Falmouth lifeboat coxswain Alan Barnes and crew member Peter Wood have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two people and...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1976
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 21, 24, April 17, 19 and 23.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 13.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 27 (twice).Arran, Strathclyde May 29.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 17...
Category: Services