LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Walmer, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Royal Marine conoeist had capsized off Deal.
There was a moderate north-north- westerly wind with a choppy sea...
S.S. Alphald
OCT. 22ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.35 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer S.S. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W. Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked S.S. Mahratta. A moderate N.E. breeze was...
Torbay — Rededication of Arun Class Marie Winstone
The Arun class lifeboat Marie Winstone at her rededication ceremony in Torbay. Soon afterwards she was called away on a service to search for a missing diver and the ceremony had to proceed without her!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe (2)
AUG. 18TH. - HYTHE, KENT. It had been reported that a canoe was being carried away by the wind and tide, but the life-boat could find nothing, and it was learnt later that the canoe had come safely ashore.- Rewards, £23 16s.
Books
BOOKs From cargos of coffee and tobacco to the thrills of speedboat testing, from learning the ropes to total disaster - Carol Waterkeyn and Sam Price review four more titles to bring you closer to the sea Unless other ordering details are...
Category: Articles
Functional
Functional "Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution "...In 1971 the RNL1 adopte' Functional for Offshore Stations. The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe...
Category: Advertisement
A Yacht
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — 2 6 t h July. A yacht was in difficulties, but managed to get to a safe anchorage.
The mother of one of the boys in the yacht sent a letter of thanks and a donation to the branch.—Rewards,...
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Margate, Kent.—1st July, 1939.
Rockets had been reported between Warden Point and the Reculvers, but nothing could be found. Mr. P. E. W.
Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in the boat.—Rewards,...
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron RE at Work on the Track at Kirkcudbright Scotland Which Leads to the Life-Boat Station and (Below) the Finished Track Which Took T
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Yacht
JULY 3RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A small motor yacht had caught fire, but another yacht rescued the only person on board. A donation was received in gratitude for the launching of the life-boat.-Rewards, £2 16s..