LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Halifax Aeroplane
MARCH 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.30 at night, the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the R.A.F. at St. David’s that a Halifax aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west by...
RAPID RESPONSE
When two teenage boys found themselves drifting out to sea, they soon realised they were in real danger. Luckily for them, trainee Crew Member Sam Shelley was close by
A warm summer’s day was winding down in Skinningrove...
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Catriona
Skegness, Lincolnshire. — At 8.36 on the night of the 7th of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Lynn Well lightvessel had reported that flares had been seen five to six miles north-by-east of her. The sea was smooth, the wind...
List of Awardees
Since ihc last Annual Presentalion of Awards, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Life Governorships. 2 Records of Thanks. 5 Bar In Gold Badges and 76 Gold Badges. Awtinli't'. not inteniiini the APA ttiv shown with tin mfrmi...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Esbo (1)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
None (1)
Man clinging to cliff A MAN CUT OFF by the tide at Saltwick Nab was reported to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by the Coastguard at 1805 on Friday, July 25, 1975. It was high water and in normal circumstances, with a...
Loch Long, of Aberdeen
St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
Life-Boat Crossword—2
The winners of the October crossword were: 1st prize (watch), Mrs. Laura S. Lamb, Lloyds Bank House, Broadway, Worcs.; 2nd prize (£1), Mr. J. A. Porter, 149 Coast Drive, Lydd-on-Sea, Kent; 3rd prize (£1), Mr. P....
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Life-Boat Crossword—4
LIFE-BOAT CROSSWORD—4 0 The winners of the April crossword were: 1st prize (£1), Dr. J. J. Drever, Brunton Place, Edinburgh, 2nd prize (£1), Mr. R. W. McLaren, Grange Park, Woodland Avenue, Cramleigh, Surrey; 3rd prize (£1),...
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Augusta
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—On the 19th February, during a storm of unusual violence from the N.E., the schooner Augusta, belonging to Sunderland, and bound from that port to Little Jersey, was wrecked on some rocks to the leeward of this harbour.<...