LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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BAU,TWAI,TEE, Co. DOWH.—On Sunday morning the 30th September, at about half- past four o'clock the Coastguard watchman observed a dim light in the direction of the Skull Martin Rock. The Coastguard galley was immediately manned and went...
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
More Than 150 Services of Thanksgiving Have Been Held Around Britain and Ireland In Norwich Cathedral the Rnli Standard Is Carried to the Altar Photograph By Court
More than 150 services of thanksgiving have been held around Britain and Ireland. In Norwich Cathedral the RNLI standard is carried to the altar. Photograph by Courtesy of Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital. Maroons were...
The Screw Steamer Tuskar, of Glasgow
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...
Services to German Yachts. Thanks of the Institution to Clacton-On-Sea
THERE were exceptionally heavy gales at the end of May and the beginning of June, 1938. Thirty-two life-boats were launched on service during the five days from 29th May to 2nd June, the majority on the south-east and south coasts, and they...
Category: Services
Offshore Winners
On a recent wet and windy day, the sun briefly shone on prizewinners. Colin and Daisy Coulson and their son Michael, as Steve Lang of Avon Inflatables and Sharon New of the RNLI presented them with their new Avon RIB, engine and trailer..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hayling Island Crew
Hayling Island crew receive the RSPCA Certificate of Merit. Left to right: Kieran Kinsella, Paul Lewis, Colin Parke, Jayne Carter, Robert Briggs, Paul Williams (back) Chief Inspector RSPCA,Tony Green. Graham Raines Photo; Mr Lewis (Snr).<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Renaissance
Dungeness, Kent.—7th October, 1938, The Belgian trawler Renaissance had been disabled by a wire which had fouled her propeller, but another trawler took her in tow.—Rewards, £16 135..
Committee Members Draw the Lottery
A few days before the draw. Mrs Sandra Ward who with her husband had won the star prize of a Volvo 440 SE car in the January lottery, was presented with the keys by Mr Charles Hunter-Pease (centre), managing director of Volvo Car UK at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs