LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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APRIL 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.40 in the afternoon a message was received from Shoebury garrison that seven men, engaged on demolition work, were stranded on the boom defence a mile-and-ahalf out to sea and...
Remura
AUGUST 27TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that a vessel eight miles from Kinnaird Head required help. A fresh W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was choppy. At 11.40 P.M...
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
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A Sailing Dinghy
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Gaspard, of St Malo
The schooner Gaspard, of St. Malo, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 3rd Jan., 1869. The Rams- gate life-boat Bradford went off, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, on signals being fired from one of the light-ships, and on arriving...
Richard
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Richard, of Buncorn, coal laden, from Whitehaven for Killough, with a crew of three men, was seen running for the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 16th October....
Calypso
Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.
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WRECKAGE OF AIRCRAFT FOUND AND LANDED Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea two miles north-north-east of the...
The Largest Life-Boat In the World
THE 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boat now being built for New Brighton will be the most powerful Life-boat in the world, actually the largest is the new Dutch Motor Life-boat, the Brandaris, which was sent to her Station at Terschelling during...
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People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
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