LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
A celebration of life
Geoff Holt was a teenage sailor with vast potential when an accident changed his life. But his love of the sea and spirit of adventure have no bounds
There were no lifeguards on duty to warn...
Category: Articles
Racing Dinghies
At 2.30 P.M. on the 30th August the coxswain saw a dinghy, which was racing, capsize.
She was helped by an attendant launch.
A few minutes later another dinghy filled, and the life-boat Agnes Cross was...
Book Corner
• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.
Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...
Category: Articles
U.S. Coast Guard Visit
A helicopter from the US Coast Guard cutter Dallas carried out an air-sea rescue demonstration with Poole's Brede class lifeboat Inner Wheel in Poole harbour on 2 June 1994.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jolly Girls
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 5.15 P .M.
message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had been mined three-quarters of a mile east of Tynemouth Piers. A light westerly breeze was...
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Category: Advertisement
Mr. Frank Garon, of Southend-On-Sea
MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...
Category: Obituaries
Whitby's New Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pamir (2)
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...