LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
YACHT CAPSIZED Swanage, Dorset. At 5.45 p.m. on I7th September, 1965, a small yacht capsized in Swanage Bay opposite the Grand Hotel. At 5.59 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. A gale was blowing from the west-south-west, the sea was rough...
Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: OCTOBER 1990 Mrs H. Parker, president of Bolton Ladies' guild from 1974 until her death. She was chairman of the guild from 1958 to 1968 and vicepresident from 1968 to 1974.<...
Category: Obituaries
Rodent
Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...
Four Successful Efforts By the Guild. Glasgow Ball and Whist Drive, Belfast Ball, Exeter Theatricals
THE five outstanding efforts made by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild last winter were the Second Annual Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee last December, of which an account appeared in the last number of...
Category: Articles
Exercising the Life-Boat
As soon as possible after the arrival of a new Life-boat at her Station an exer- cise is held, preferably in rough weather, in order not only to test her sea-going qualities, but also as a means of giving the crew some experience of the boat...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (1)
NOBODY ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.45 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht drifting about a quarter of a mile southwest of the lightvessel,...
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has a Day Off
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nimble Wisbee
TRIMARAN SAVED Dover, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on loth April, 1965, a resident at Folkestone informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Folkestone. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 4.55 in a strong...
Pinta
The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...