LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whitehaven
Appledore, Devon. At 12.20 a.m.
on 15th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Whitehaven, of Newcastle, had a seriously injured seaman aboard who had severed a thumb and needed...
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Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...
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CHILD WAS ILL At 4 p.m. on i6th April, 1964, the nurse on the Inisheer Island told the acting honorary secretary that a child suffering from appendicitis needed to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was...
The Steamers Matje and Dunvegan
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
Rewards to Life-Boats' Crews
WITH " revolving years" the seasons of storm again and again occur, and each season brings more and more prominently into view the " Life-boat and its Work," whilst each seems to demand for that work a greater and greater...
Category: Articles
Falmouth Crew Members
L-R: Falmouth Crew Members Carl Beardmore, Peter Wood, Dave Nicoll, David Proud, Andy J d with Coxs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tributes from the Services.
After only six months of war the Admiralty sent a special letter of thanks to the Institution for the "exemplary spirit ot courage and endurance, in which, without fear or thought of self, the life-boatmen have never spared their...
Category: Articles
Silver Queen
NOVEMBER 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.20 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the Cromer coastguard, that a boat was in distress half a mile E. by N. of Eccles, and the motor life-boat H. F. Bailey...
New Equipment
• There is a range of Avon yachting clothing available (see below). While extremely functional the garments are still smart, are supple for greater comfort and they can be dry cleaned. Lightweight and medium weight garments are available and...
Category: Articles
Australia
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—A telegram having been received from Tenby on the morning of the 30th March intimating that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 8.35 and proceeded to the...