LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. W. R. Grace, of Baltimore, U.S.A.
OCTOBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.27 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands, about six miles away to the east. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
New Year Honours
Captain Alexander Finlayson, D.S.C., honorary secretary of the Storn- oway station branch, was appointed M.B'.E. in the 1956 New Year Honours..
Category: Awards
Hardy Marine
HARDY MARINE +44 (0)1692 408700 www.hardymarine.co.uk Commodore 36 Good fun in all weathers North Walsham, Norfolk, England, NR28 OAN Facsimilie: +44 (0)1692 406483 E-mail: [email protected].
Category: Advertisement
Josephine II (2)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
Bowden
Skill and determination end 11-day ordealBeeps from several pagers interrupted Sunday mass in Courtmacsherry early on 1 December 2002. With a violent storm blowing outside the church the congregation and crew knew Lives could be in danger...
Classifieds
20p per word; Minimum 10 words FUND RAISING Advertising pencils, superb ballpens, combs, diaries, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from Northern Novelties, Bradford BD1...
Category: Advertisement
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...
Letters
Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...
Category: Correspondence
The Writing's on the Wall!
The RNLI's Operations Room needs your help - do you have any surplus 'Sasco' magnetic characters to spare?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
August
Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
Category: Services