LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
LOCAL HEROES RAISE £3,500
Every child has their heroes. For James ‘Suds’ Sutherland they were footballers and lifeboat crew. So when ‘Suds’, a lifelong Celtic supporter with strong family links to the RNLI, died of a brain tumour in 2015, his friends found the...
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Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Classifieds
TH€ VANTAGE PRO Vantage PRO weather stations offer forecasting, on-screen graphing for every sensor, and multiple alarm settings.
Monitor UV temperature, wind, rain, barametric pressure, humidity and more. Quick-view icons...
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The American Steamer Fort Frederica, of Portland
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WALMER, KENT. A strong west-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. In the early morning a ship was seen to be in difficulties. She tried to move to a safe anchorage and grounded on the Goodwin Fork Sands. At...
Below: All That Remains of the Dragonfly
Below: All that remains of the Dragonfly, pulled up onto the beach the next day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.
He...
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To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
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Stranded teens
Eight teenagers tried to walk from Pembrey Country Park to Burry Port Railway Station on 19 March and became stranded. One called a parent and was advised to stay put and wait for rescue. The parent dialled 999 and soon police, coastguards...
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