LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
The Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at 12.8 P.M. on the 14th September in response to a message from Prestatyn stating that a bathing-van attendant was drifting out to sea in an open boat, without oars, towards Rhyl. Immedi- ately...
Boy Bryn
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT ALL NIGHT Khyl, Flintshire. At 10.38 on the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a call had been received for help from the motor fishing vessel Boy Bryn...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1939
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January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
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Several Speed Boats, Welsh Lady III and a Cabin Cruiser
RACE CALAMITY Beaumaris, Anglesey; Rhyl, Flintshire; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
On nth July, 1965, thirty-two speed boats were taking part in a race at Llandudno when a south westerly wind of near gale force sprang up,...
Tonny (1)
Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.
A little later she was seen to move...
Jo of Ryde
Injured Yachtsman SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1973, was overcast with rain squalls when, at 5.35 p.m., the deputy launching authority of Eastney station, Hampshire, was informed by Hayling Island Coastguard that a helicopter from the SAR flight, HMS...
Peter Jones China
To Celebrate the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday A LIMITED EDITION OF 5000 Magnificent pieces to honour H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 The Queen Mother's Favourite Flou-ers Plate...
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Lifeboat Services
A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an Ecuadorian motor...
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The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
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