LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Royal Air Force Rescue Launch
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
Here and There
Lord Mayor visits Exmouth In 1970 the 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat City of Birmingham was named at Exmouth. Civic links forged then were renewed on April 11 when, at the invitation of Charles Tate, chairman of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton...
Category: Articles
Northness
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services
Scotia
At 10.20 A.M. on the llth May it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks near Northcott Mouth. The sea was smooth, but the fog was very dense at the time.
The Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and...
In May, 1970, When Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, Who Is a Keen Member of the Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society,
In May, 1970, when Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a keen member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was visiting Minehead, Somerset, he found IRB No. 177 being launched on exercise. This IRB is fitted with inner tubes. Older... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY.—The Whitby No. 2. Life-boat was rapidly becoming unfit for further ser- vice, and it has been replaced by another 8-oared boat, 30 feet long, and 7 feet -t inches wide, which was forwarded to the station, with a transporting-carriage...
Category: Articles
The S.S. North Tyne
POINT OP AYR, FLINTSHIRE.—The B.S.
North Tyne, of Newcastle, bound from Huelva for Mostyn, was seen stranded, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.W., with heavy squalls and a rough sea, on the 28th January. The...
Life-Boat Sevices
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Category: Services