LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Meteor Aircraft
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.— At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station to say the R.A.F. station at Worthing had reported that two airmen were baling out of a...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small sailing dinghy with two men on board had capsized a quarter of a mile off shore between Sandy Cove and Towyn. The life-boat Anthony Robert...
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley (1)
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
A Large Open Boat
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 9th December the wind suddenly became squally, increasing to a gale from the W.
off the land. A large open boat, manned by two men and a boy, and having but one broken oar on board, was swept...
A Fishing Boat
On the 10th August, during a moderate gale, a fishing- boat belonging to Sunderland was blown out to sea. When she was about nine miles E.N.E. of the harbour she was observed and a message was conveyed to the Life-boat authorities. In...
A Small Boat (3)
The Motor Life- boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 5.50 P.M. on the 5th June in response to information, which had been sent to the Coastguard and passed on by them, that a small boat with two men in her was in trouble between East and...
A Rowing Boat
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1950, the Tynemouth coast- guard telephoned that two men ap- peared to be in difficulties in a rowing boat two and a half miles to the east- ward. At 4.50 the...
A Small Boat
ONE MAN RESCUED At 2.29 p.m. on igth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pier lighthouse keeper had seen a small boat in difficulties near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate southby- east breeze and a...
A Fashion Spectacular
Showing the way A fashion spectacular, ranging from wedding dresses to children's wear, organised by Gloucester with Churchdown branch at Gloucester Guildhall proved a great success.
The fund-raising 'Clothes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (1)
AUGUST 11TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
At 12.58 in the morning, the police reported that a yacht which had put out at one o’clock on the previous afternoon, had not returned.
She had five on board. A...