LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (122)
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During an air raid a German aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea four or five miles N. by W. of the station, but nothing except a patch of oil could be found.
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NOVEMBER 1ST. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. Flares had been reported twelve miles off, but nothing was found.
This was the first service call received at, this recently established station, where the life-boat arrived on 24th...
District Conferences
Meeting of Workers from North and Mid-Wales.
A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers from Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds in North and Mid-Wales was held at Llandudno on the 22nd October, 1930. Delegates from ten...
Category: Meetings
District Conferences
North-East of England, South-East of England, and North-West of England.
TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...
Category: Meetings
Maurice Georges
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...
Widgeon II
Dover, Kent. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 25th of May, 1958, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares off South Foreland. At 1.10 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary...
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HELP FOR SICK MAN St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on I2th June, 1964, the St. John Ambulance commissioner informed the honorary secretary that the life-boat was required to take a sick man from Sark to St. Peter Port. There was a...
lona Maid
Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.10 on the night of the 12th May, 1961, the life- boat Charlotte Elizabeth, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea. The cox- swain had seen a cabin cruiser, which had broken down, making distress signals and had...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.28 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that a man was stranded on a rope ladder at Rough Towers Fort. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 9.52...
Boy Eric
APRIL 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. the naval base reported a fishing boat, off the North Foreland, in need of a tow into harbour. She was the Boy Eric, of Lowestoft, on voyage, with a crew of two, to Ramsgate for repairs. A light S.W...