LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
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Last year marked the centenary of the loss of Margate rescue surf boat Friend to all nations along with nine of her crew. The surfboat was operated by a group of local boatmen in tandem with the RNLI lifeboat - generally the same men would... - View image in PDF
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Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
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OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.
At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...
Ariston
NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of 15,000 tons, laden with oil, from America for the United...
Union, of Fraserburgh
AUGUST 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE At 11.35 at night the coastguard reported flares about one mile off North Head. A light south-south-east wind was blowing. There was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
H.M.S. Birnbeck
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
An Aeroplane (119)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 5.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that a German aeroplane was in the sea a quarter of a mile S.W. of the bathing pool at St.
Leonards, and that another had crashed in...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched at 4.50...