LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Extraordinary People
Each year,thousands of remarkable people provide voluntary donations that enable theRNLIto carry out its work.Many have no direct connection with the sea or maritimehistory,but simply have responded to our call and the bravery of our...
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Spectacular, of St Malo
The Dr. JTatton, the Institution's boat stationed near New Eomney, was launched soon after noon on the 25th October, and proceeded through a very heavy sea and strong breeze to the assistance of a ketch embayed off Dym- ehurcb. with a...
Practice makes perfect
A routine exercise on 10 June between The Lizard lifeboat and a naval helicopter became the real thing the following day.
Both were called to the aid of the fishing vessel Harvester, which had reported an engine room fire...
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Golf Competitions
DURING 1936 sixty-four golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland held competitions in aid of the life-boat service for which the Institution presented spoons as prizes. As a result the clubs contributed £196 11s....
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The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda
DECEMBER 21ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 3.25 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing coble Hilda, of Scarborough, was in distress. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a...
An Aeroplane (1)
29th October. Distress flares reported but nothing could be found. It was prob- ably the aeroplane to which Dover also launched.—Rewards £40 7s. 9d.
(A full account of this launch appears on p. 8, of this...
An Aeroplane (9)
JUNE 27TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot.
The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.- Rewards, £5 2s. 6d. (For a full account, see “ Services by...
An Aeroplane (20)
SEPT. 18TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as her services were not needed. - Rewards, £12 5s..
An Aeroplane (36)
MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.
(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).
An Aeroplane (64)
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, hut nothing was found.- Rewards, £8 11s..