LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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AUGUST 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned information, received from the S.S. Thelma, through Land’s End Radio, that a yacht was four miles north of Grassholm, with her...
History Is Repeated As Hrh the Duke of Kent Helps Launch the Sennen Cove Lifeboat the Four Boys
History is repeated as HRH The Duke of Kent helps launch the Sennen Cove lifeboat The Four Boys from her position at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Procession of the Sea Services
AT the invitation of the Admiralty, two Life-boats took part in the Commemora- tion on the Thames, on Monday, the 4th August. The Procession Committee having expressed a preference for power- boats rather than for the typical pulling- boats,...
Category: Articles
Letters
Brighton lifeboat station I read with interest the reference in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT to the fact that Brighton lifeboat station was marking its own 160th anniversary in 1984 as well as that of the...
Category: Correspondence
Longshoremen In Winter
Telling of the Winter Life ltd by tht Stout-hearted Heroes who Man our Life-boats.
By HERBERT RUSSELL.
WHEN the shrill piping of the equinoctial gales has proclaimed the coming of the long bleak months of...
Category: Articles
Flashing Stream
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1955, the Cromer coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Tudor Queen had wirelessed that she had found the motor yacht Flashing Stream, with a crew of two, fifteen miles...
Trevor England Joined Padstow Lifeboat Crew In 1957 He Became Second Coxswain/Assistant Motor Mechanic In 1970 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1978 In 1977 He Was Awarded the Silver Me
Trevor England joined Padstow lifeboat crew in 1957, he became second coxswain/assistant motor mechanic in 1970 and was appointed coxswain in 1978. In 1977 he was awarded the silver medal and in 1979 a bar to his silver medal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flag Days: An Answer to the Critics
THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.
"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Galliot Johanna, of Soon
On the 8th March a vessel was observed running in for the land, and, as it was evident she was em- bayed, there being a heavy sea and strong wind from E.N.E., a steam-tug went out and took her in tow. While crossing the bar the tow-rope...
The Oil Exploration Vessel Oregis and Northsider
Tug on rocks AN ENGINE breakdown just as she had cast off her tugs on her final trials resulted in the oil exploration vessel Oregis going aground at the entrance to the Tyne. It was 1530 on Sunday, March 10. Tynemouth honorary secretary was...