LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Radio and Electronic Equipment In Life-Boats
With the exception of three short- range boats, all the Institution's life- boats, both in the active and in the reserve fleet, are equipped with M/F (medium frequency) radio-telephony.
The advantages of a life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Spitfire Aeroplane (4)
MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...
Red Lion Brinkley
For a full 24 hours regulars at the Red Lion, Brinkley, played various pub games sponsored in aid of the RNLl. Mine host and hostess, Les and Pat James, stayed up with the players, providing reviving food and drink round the clock. Roger... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Richardson Hotels.
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Category: Advertisement
The Three-Masted S.S. Elaine
DUNGENESS.—It having been reported by the coastguard watchman, on the.
night of the 12th January, that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Lifeboat B.A.O.B. was launched, and found the three-masted s.s. Elaine, of...
Natasha
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.45 a.m. on 22nd June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the harbour office that the S.S. Tryonia was going to the help of a yacht which seemed to be in distress about three and a half miles west of Grosnez...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.53 p.m.
on 9th July, 1967, it was reported that a soldier had been reported washed out to sea between Linney Head and Trains Lake sands. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
The S.S. Heire (1)
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
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Saved from drowning IN THE EARLY EVENING of Saturday September 12, 1981, two girls, Leanne aged 10 and Lorna aged 8, were playing near the water's edge at Splash Point, to the east of Watchet Harbour mouth.
The weather...