LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...
Crew Members Held
crew members held her off adjacent rocks with boathooks, the boy was lowered on board and taken to Torquay Harbour at full speed. First intimation that the boy was in trouble had come from a young man, Nicholas Berry, who had risked his own... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award for Coxswain
COXSWAIN David Cox, of Wells, Norfolk, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution on vellum for an attempted service to the yacht Kiskadee on the night of 29th-3oth August, 1964.
A report that a yacht was burning a red...
Category: Services
One Hundred Gallons of Petrol Donated By Bp Oils Ltd Was the Prize In a Draw Organised By Pangbourne Branch Which Raised £1800 for the Rnli the Lucky Ticket Was Drawn at the Swan Hotel
One hundred gallons of petrol, donated by BP Oils Ltd, was the prize in a draw organised by Pangbourne branch which raised £1,800 for the RNLI. The lucky ticket was drawn at the Swan Hotel by England Test cricketer Denis Compton. With... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tumbleweed
Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Severn Class Lifeboat Spirit of Guernsey Tackles Rough Seas Off St.Peter Port Photo. Brian Green
Severn class lifeboat Spirit of Guernsey tackles rough seas off St Peter Port Photo. Brian Green. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1895
THE Board of Trade is to be congratulated on the success of its efforts to lay before the public the " Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which have occurred on or near the Coasts of the United Kingdom " up to the latest possible...
Category: Articles
Aquasoothe (1)
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Union-Castle Line
1900 - 2000 CENTENARY VOYAGE DECEMBER 1999 - FEBRUARY 2000 On December 3Lt 1999 we're Jure you IIbe making mer/y...
but a delect few will be nwking history What better time than the Millennium to be aboard the first...
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