LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths.
MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979.
MAY 1988: Mrs Dorothy Smith, first...
Category: Obituaries
Porthdinllaen: Centenary Celebrations August 12 1964 Photograph By Courtesy of John Charles
Porthdinllaen: Centenary celebrations August 12, 1964. photograph by courtesy of John Charles. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duke of Kent Addresses the Gathering Before Presenting the Awards
HRH The Duke of Kent addresses the gathering before presenting the awards. - View image in PDF
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Photo By Kind Permission Of The South West Coast Path Association
Photo By Kind Permission Of The South West Coast Path Association. - View image in PDF
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The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Last issue’s Father of Forecast piece charting the life of Robert FitzRoy certainly caught the imagination – here are just some of the many letters and emails we received …
'A FANTASTIC READ'
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The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
Stormbound Off Barra
Stormbound off Barra Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
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Louise
JAN. 7TH - CLACTON-ON-SEA. AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. At about 4.38 P.M. the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties. Soon afterwards they reported that she was burning flares for help,...
Porthcawl - Wales and West Mercia Division
Porthcawl - Wales and West Mercia Division In its literal translation from Welsh, 'port - cawl' means 'port of boiling broth' as the seaside resort faces brutal prevailing Westerly winds and currents - and the highest rise... - View image in PDF
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