LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Back With Their Feet Firmly on the Ground Are Six Intrepid
Back with their feet firmly on the ground are six intrepid first-time parachutists: (I to r) Jim Bridge, Colin Robins, Dave Allison, Michael Riley, Keith Benn and George West, honorary secretary of Whitehaven branch: with them (r.) to... - View image in PDF
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Sir Charles Macara (With Walking Stick) and a Clayton Tractor on Trials at Lytham St.Annes
Sir Charles Macara (with walking stick) and a Clayton tractor on trials at Lytham St Annes. (Photo Lytham Lifeboat Museum). - View image in PDF
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Survivors from the Ferry Laerling Are Landed from Lerwick's Arun Class Lifeboat Soldian.
Survivors from the ferry Laerling are landed from Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian. Photo Ian Leask. - View image in PDF
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Left Page, Main Pic: Crew Members Are Lifted from a Tiferaft Using a Helicopter
Left page, main pic: Crew members are lifted from a tiferaft using a helicopter winch simulator as Instructor Dave Bitlingham looks on.. - View image in PDF
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(Below) Ken Voice Coxswain of Shoreham Lifeboat Received a Cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton Chief Ranger of the Court Sussex Elm Independe
(Below) Ken Voice, coxswain of Shoreham lifeboat, received a cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton, chief ranger of the Court Sussex Elm, Independent Order of Foresters. The money was raised by court members during... - View image in PDF
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Lucy B., of Rye
Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
On 2nd November, 1930, at 10.30 in the morning, the Selsey and Bognor Motor Life-boat was launched, as news had been received that a vessel was in difficulties to the west of Selsey Bill. A W.S.W...
Queen Victoria, of South Shields
On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong N.E. gale, the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields, was totally wrecked on the Barnard Sand. The life-boat put off, and succeeded in saving one of the crew from the rigging. The remainder, 7 in number...
The Cornish Fisheries
Ix a former number of this Journal we have recorded that 36,000 fishing-boats, employ- ing 150,000 men and boys, are annually engaged in the fisheries of the United King- dom. In the April number will be found some statistics of the Herring...
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Books
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
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Promise
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—-At half past six on the night of the 7th of De- cember, 1949, it was learned that the local fishing boat Promise, was overdue.
The relatives of the crew of three were anxious for their safety....