LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
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Contents
Contents RNLINews.
Volume L Number 497 Lifeboat Services.
Fraserhurgh: When a job needs doing, by Georgette Purches.
42 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.I.
Director and...
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Army Helps the Life-Boat Service
DURING July, 1968, the track to the life-boat station at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was repaired by a squadron of Royal Engineers. The station is four miles from the town and about a mile from the public road, access being by a private track...
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Life-Boat Crossword—2
The winners of the October crossword were: 1st prize (watch), Mrs. Laura S. Lamb, Lloyds Bank House, Broadway, Worcs.; 2nd prize (£1), Mr. J. A. Porter, 149 Coast Drive, Lydd-on-Sea, Kent; 3rd prize (£1), Mr. P....
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April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
Category: Services
The Last Life-Boat Horses
Working the capstan at Hastings.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eidswold
On the 7th December, the tug and Lifeboat went out at about 6 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the brig Eidswold, of Arendal, Norway,bound from Sundsvall, Sweden, to Poole.
She had gone ashore...
Harwich: When on July 9 the Ex Revenue Cutter L'Atalanta Went Aground on Cork Sands With Six People on Board the Water Was Too Shallow for Harwich's 44' Waven
Harwich: When, on July 9, the ex revenue cutter L'Atalanta went aground on Cork Sands, with six people on board, the water was too shallow for Harwich's 44' Waveney lifeboat Margaret Graham to approach. Two crew members ran a tow... - View image in PDF
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Below: the Public Get a Chance to Look Round
Below: The public get a chance to look round the new station at the open day. - View image in PDF
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Doctor Dick Rutherfurd
Doctor Dick Rutherfurd MB, vice chairman of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station branch. Dr Rutherfurd had been involved with the station since 1956, serving as honorary secretary, honorary medical adviser and committee member. He was awarded a...
Category: Obituaries