LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1920 The great difficulty in the way of Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses. It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they...
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Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
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Lucille and Pearl
The Life-boat Genrge Leicester was launched at 3.25 P.M. on the 2nd December, it having been reported that two fishing- boats were in danger some few miles N.E. of Minehead. A whole S. gale prevailed at the time, with a rough sea, and the...
'We waited and hoped'
On the evening of 1 April, Skerries lifeboat crew members were requested to search for two missing fishermen from the Co Dublin town
Along with RNLI lifeboat crews from Clogher Head and Howth,...
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Here and There
Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...
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George and Margaret
NEWBIGGIN. — During a gale of wind from the S.E., and a heavy sea, on the 29th May, the coble George and Margaret, of Newbiggin, while making for the shore was struck by a high sea, and at once foundered, about half a mile E. of Church Point...
End of season drama
It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
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Lifeboat Provides Inflatable and First Aid In Team Effort for Fallen Climber
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.
The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Katie Marie, and Harriet and John
At 1.10 P.M. on the 6th May the Coastguard reported that four of the Palling fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a strong S.E. breeze, rough sea and heavy surf, were running towards Cromer, and trying to find a safe landing-place, the...
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...