LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 1st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speed boat with five persons aboard, which had left Rhyl that morning, had not returned. At 10.20 a report was received...
The S.S. Fridtjof Nansen
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick seaman on board the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen, of Kristiansand, Norway. The Norwegian steamer...
A Motor Boat, Soloist and Ruskina, a Sailboard and other Boats
Multiple casualties for Atlantic 21 in winds up to Force 10 An arduous service by the West Mersea Atlantic 21 lifeboat, carried out in very rough conditions with the crew using their initiative and local knowledge to assist a large number of...
Briar
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO DOCK Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, one of the keepers of Walney lighthouse told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was anchored near the Outer Bar buoy and had just released a...
A Hunter Aircraft (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Conference
South-western District.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in Hampshire, Berkshire, East Dorset and Wiltshire was held at Winchester on the 15th March. Representatives from nineteen Branches and Guilds were present, and Sir...
Category: Meetings
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st September to 3oth November, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 p.m. on ist September,...
Category: Services
The S.S. Afon Gwili
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked...
Falke
Engine failure A FISHING VESSEL, Falke, on delivery passage from the continent to Whitby on Monday December 18, 1978, put out a 'pan' message saying that she was broken down 60 miles east by north of Flamborough Head with no power or...