LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rayella
MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an onshore gale three...
Presented to the Prince of Wales at Edinburgh
Left to right: Coxswain John Innes (Newburgh), Coxswain James Cameron (Peterhead), Coxswain Andrew Cunningham (Crail), Mr. G. L. Thomson (Honorary Life Governor of the Institution and Honorary Secretary at Stromness), Second-Coxswain James... - View image in PDF
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly...
Watermark Success
Watermark, the Mail Order catalogue of RNLI (Sales), has some exciting news - the winner of its Christmas crossword competition and the company's record breaking sales last year.
The winner of the competition, Mrs... - View image in PDF
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Wellington
PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...
A Yacht
Buzz off! In an unusual rescue in south Wales on 23 July 2004, Burry Port lifeboat assisted a man whose yacht had been invaded by a swarm of bees. The man took refuge in the cabin and radioed for help and the Burry Port D class lifeboat came...
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Lifeboat Weddings:
Lifeboat weddings: when David and Anne Richards were married in September an archway of oars was held aloft for them.
David is a crew member of Exmouth's D class inflatable lifeboat and his RNLI colleagues were there to... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain George Warford, of Pakefield
Coxswain George Warlord, of Pakefield.
A Coxswain with a long and fine record, Coxswain George M. War- ford, of Pakefield (one of the Stations closed last year), died on 14th March last, at the age of eighty-eight. He...
Category: Obituaries
When Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli
When HRH The Duke of Kent, President, of the RNLI, visited Lowestoft lifeboat station in May he met crew members, their wives and branch and guild representatives.
Lord Somerleyton, branch president (hidden), presents to... - View image in PDF
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