LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Major Peter Longmore
Major Peter Longmore MC, president of Chichester & District branch. He joined the committee in 1976 and immediately took on the office of chairman until 1991. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1988..
Category: Obituaries
Letters
Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...
Category: Correspondence
A Small Boat
Teignmouth, Devon.—At 3.25 P.M. on the 17th March the coastguard reported that a small boat, with one man on board, had been carried out of the harbour by the strong ebb tide, and was in difficulty. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
The Great Storm In November, 1893
AT irregular periods, mercifully with a lapse of several years between them, storms of wide extent and hurricane force visit our coasts. The violence of these great gales and the enormous area affected by them is out of all proportion to the...
Category: Articles
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....
Daisy and Young Kenneth
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. — At midday on the 4th February there was a very heavy sea on the bar, and, as fishing boats could be seen making for harbour, the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 12.40 P.M., in case her help was...
The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
Category: Articles
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—30th October.
A large vessel had been reported drifting, but no trace of her could be found.—Rewards, £18 2s. Qd..
A Minesweeper (1)
DECEMBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. A minesweeper had broken adrift while being towed, but there was no one on board. - Rewards : Clovelly, £20 8s. ; Appledore, £24 2s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (71)
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. It was reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea and that a man had been heard shouting, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 2s. 6d..