LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£207 By Photography
ADMIRAL STUART NICHOLSON, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., who has been Honorary Secretary of the Bude Branch since 1921, and was presented last year with the Gold Badge, has contributed £207 to the funds of the Branch by photography, principally by...
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Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Exercise Poolespill
'At 0600 on Friday, October 24, 1975, an oil tanker struck a submerged object off Studland Bay, Dorset, and 200 tons of oil spilled into the sea . . . . Miles of beaches, and marine and bird life, were threatened by what looked like a...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ST. ANNE'S ON THE SEA, LANCASHIRE.— In accordance with the wishes of the Life- boat men, the large Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at the end of St. Anne's Pier has been replaced by the large sailing Life-boat specially...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
Saved boat and three SHOREHAM HARBOUR DLA was informed by HM Coastguard at 1405 on Wednesday July 20, 1977, that a 14' sailing dinghy was half submerged just west of the harbour entrance; one of her crew of three could be seen in the...
Annie
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.
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Bookshelf
Britain's Historic Coast By Alison Gale Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0-7524-1456-9 Price: £19.99 . _ _ H Alison Gale takes a trip through time that explains how human activity has both exploited and left its mark upon...
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The French Life-Boat Service. A Survey and a Tribute
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....
Diesel Engines
SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...
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