LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swept into sea AN ANGLER SWEPT into the sea north of Filey Brigg was reported to the deputy launching authority of Filey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1222 on Sunday September 25, 1983. Nine minutes later the station's D class...
Lt Cdr Brian Miles the Rnli's Director Accepts a Cheque for £250000
Ll Cdr Brian Miles, the RNLI's director, accepts a cheque for £250.000 from Charles Hunter-Pease (left), sales and marketing director for Volvo Concessionaires Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
Suzanna D. and Trawler Speranza
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
Past and Present
100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
Category: Articles
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Two dogs TWO CERTIFICATES OF MERIT have been awarded by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to lifeboatmen of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston; one to the crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham who rescued a dog on...
(Left) One Day Last Summer Senior Crew Members
(left) One day last summer senior crew members from Brought}' Ferry, Stonehaven, Aberdeen and Peterhead visited Bristow Helicopters' Aberdeen base, which serves the Forties and Brent offshore oil fields. Bristows Senior Aircrewman... - View image in PDF
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Letters
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
Category: Correspondence
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BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.
wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and...
Coxswain Alan Thomas
Coxswain Alan Thomas of Tenby. Alan Thomas joined the Tenby lifeboat crew in 1966, was assistant motor mechanic from 1972 to 1974 and served as second coxswain from 1974 to 1982 when he became coxswain. He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs