LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sidelights on Stations
MR. TOM BOWMAN, the assistant tractor driver, Rhyl, had his car stolen from outside the boathouse while he was engaged on a launch on Good Friday. His son and Mr. Peter Hughes, both members of the Life-boat Guild, were in the boathouse at...
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True lifeline
A woman slipped on rocks while fishing near Aberdovey on 8 June. Despite being in severe pain from suspected wrist and knee fractures she got back to shore herself where coastguards and paramedics gave first aid. It was too difficult to...
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Lerwick:
Lerwick: The 52ft Arun Soldian before her naming. In background, moored alongside, can be seen the Norwegian lifeboat Skomvaer II: she was also visited by the Duke of Kent during the afternoon.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Poole - Atlantic 75 Friendly Forester II
Poole's busy new Atlantic 75 took a short breather on 15 August 1995 for her official naming ceremony, but even before the champagne was dry on her bow she was off on another shout! The lifeboat was donated by the Ancient Order of... - View image in PDF
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A Rowing Boat (3)
JUNE 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. A rowing boat with eight soldiers on board had been driven out to sea, but a nearby fishing boat rescued them. - Rewards : Dunbar, £5 ; St.
Abbs, £6...
J. & J. Monks (1)
Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St.
Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 14th November the Liverpool steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of gravel, anchored about three miles...
Silver Cloud and Runag
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat mechanic reported that the motor trawler Silver Cloud, of Abersoch, was towing to Pwllheli the yacht Runag, of Glasgow, which had gone...
Salcombe Life-Boat Disaster
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...
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J. & J. Monks
Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St.
Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 14th November the Liverpool steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of gravel, anchored about three miles...
Prince Charles Had a Word for Everyone Bill Adams Extreme Right and Tom Nutman Dl (Scotland North) Fifth from Right Photograph By Courtesy of Daily Express
Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .
Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.
photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs