LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hidden Treasure Shops
I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.
I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.
This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...
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Sick Man Taken In Gale from Lightvessel
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary of the Barrow, Lancashire, lifeboat station, Mr. T. Downing, was told by the Superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Holyhead that a member of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Prince Ivanhoe
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
MARCH, APRIL AND MAY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: April 8 D class: April 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: March 24 and April 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1 (three times) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 13, April...
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Ard Carna
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
United States Coast Guard: a Glimpse By Trevor Ramsden Station Administrative Officer Padstow
THE SIGHT AND SMELL of bacon and hash browns at 90 degrees in the shade was a bit overpowering as a greeting to Grand Haven Coast Guard Station. A sympathetically smiling cook soon corrected my mistaken entrance and directed me to the...
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None (1)
Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
Notus
Norwegian yacht aground IN THE EARLY HOURS of Saturday, June 20, 1987, Ramsgate's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann launched in response to a message from Dover Coastguard MRCC that red flares and a MAYDAY signal had been...