LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Boats Aleeta Noot and La Falaise
RESCUED BOAT SINKS Margate, Kent.—-At 5.15 in the afternoon of April the 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that two small vessels were in distress three miles north-east of Margate. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
Hrh the Duke of Kent Arrives at Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station
HRH The Duke of Kent arrives at Aldeburgh lifeboat station, accompanied by the branch chairman, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Mills and . . .. - View image in PDF
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The Organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition Staged at the University of Essex for Five Days Last Spring Invited Colchester Branch to Set Up a Souvenir Stand at the Event Here
The organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition staged at the University of Essex for five days last spring, invited Colchester branch to set up a souvenir stand at the event. Here, Mrs Ruth Clarke, the honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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The New Lifeboat Station at Looe In Cornwall
The new lifeboat station at Looe in Cornwall was constructed using traditi materials, in keeping with the surrounding area. - View image in PDF
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Down to Business! the Ceremony Over, Margate's Crew Launch the Station's D Class Lifeboat to Tow Dinghy to Safety.
Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.
...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Doris Buchan Showing Her Lifeboat Man Statuette to Her Mother Mrs Ethel Anderson Aged 77 Widow of Superintendent Coxswain Captain William S Anderson Wh
Mr Robertson Buchan pictured in October with the new Superintendent Coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, in the boat house at Spurn Head just after his retirement. RNLI picture. - View image in PDF
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The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
May (1)
MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
Category: Services
Three Fishing Drifters and The Scottish Drifter Coreopsis
NOVEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 11.17 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard reported a fishing drifter ashore a quarter of a mile south of the look-out. A light southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Fl Lt J a Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of Rai- Brawdy Were Awarded the 1978 L G Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for Their Invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'
Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.
Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any... - View image in PDF
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