photographs by courtesy of H. E. Appleton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thirty-five years back • Reading the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT brings back memories of, incredibly, nearly 35 years ago. Memories of those hectic days may have become a bit mixed up by the passage of time, but I think it was in the autumn...
Category: Correspondence
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 10.15 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop of Inverness was disabled off the Bass Rock, six miles east of...
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Memento of a night to remember: When the 85-strong Caldicat Male ("»/ce Choir, together with soprano soloist Miss Ann Beynon. gave a concert at Bournemouth at the invitation of the ladies' guild and Miss Mary Palmer on May 28,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...
Category: Services
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
APPENDICITIS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.50 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor in Papa Westray that he had an acute appendicitis case requiring immediate hospital treatment. As no other vessel was...