LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Rescue In the Old Days
Plaster panels recently modelled for the Ship Hotel, at Cromer, The photographs are reproduced by kind permission of the Morgan Brewery Company. - View image in PDF
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The Motor Fishing Boats Provider, Galilee and Pilot Me
FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
Pride of Erin
Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard passed on by telephone a message that the motor fishing vessel Pride of Erin, of Belfast, was ashore in West Loch Tarbert.
She was...
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent With a Posy
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent with a posy before the Wells naming ceremony was a big event for Storm Force member Melissa Walker, daughter of Coxswain/ Mechanic Graham Walker.. - View image in PDF
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Question Time:
Question time: three lifeboatmen from Minehead ready to answer questions in a new series of Granada TV's Busman's Holiday, beginning in the new year and offering prizes of trips to exotic parts. Bryan Stoner (I), Chris Rundle... - View image in PDF
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Stuck In the Sands
One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.
The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...
Category: Articles
Here, Courtmacsherry Harbour’s Solent Class Lifeboat Offers One Of The Competitors A Lifeline
here, Courtmacsherry harbour’s Solent class lifeboat offers one of the competitors a lifeline. - View image in PDF
Photo: Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Trawler Viking
SCARBOROUGH.—The s.s. trawler Viking, proceeding from the fishing ground to Grimsby on the 13th February, stranded on the White Nab, one mile S. of Scarborough.
The weather was very thick at the time and a very light wind...
The Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel No. 641
FEBRUARY 24TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE. At 4.20 in the morning the naval base at Milford Haven asked through the coastguard that the life-boat be sent to search for a dinghy which had been reported by an aeroplane about twelve miles...
As Was Reported In the December, 1967, Issue of the Life-Boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a Member of the IRB Crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler
As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
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