LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
Scarborough Evening News Man on the Spot on 7Th August Was Chief Photographer Jay Mason—He Was Taking Pictures of Filey Life-Boat's Demonstration Launch When a Real Rescue Came Up. Th
Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—On the appli- cation of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat Establishment at Giles' Quay, on the north side of Dundalk Bay, it having been considered that a Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Royal Air Force Launch 1659
Holyhead, Anglesey-At 7.16 p.m.
on 26th January, 1970, red flares were reported about five miles south west of the South Stack lighthouse.
The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a...
(Below) Slipway: New Galvanised Steel Panels Were Bolted to the Transoms to the Tops of Which Up to a Metre of Concrete Had Been Added
(Below) Slipway: new galvanised steel panels were bolted to the transoms, to the tops of which up to a metre of concrete had been added.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Four-Masted Iron Ship Mersey
WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
Yacht Nicephore
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She...
Fire Extinguishers at Life-Boat Stations
THERE are two types of fire extinguishers in use at Life-boat Stations. The one is the liquid type, charged with carbon tetrachloride, the other is the "Total" extinguisher which is a dry powder machine. This type was first adopted...
Category: Articles