LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Bouquet for the Princess Presented By Debbie Jones
A bouquet for the Princess, presented by Debbie Jones, daughter of Crew Member Victor Jones. Just behind Debbie is Rachel Probert, daughter of Crew Member Kenneth Probert, who presented a souvenir programme to Her Royal Highness. Victoria... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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A Light-Ship Electrically Connected With the Shore. (From the Times, 20th March, 1894.)
THE Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Light-houses and Light - vessels recommended that five light-vessels be immediately connected with the shore by a telegraphic cable, viz., the Goodwin, at the north end of the sand; the...
Category: Articles
Yvonne Risager
TWO HOUR WAIT BEFORE ENTERING HARBOUR Dunbar, East Lothian. At. 6.15 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the life-boat coxswain had been told by the skipper of...
The S.S. Charles Jose
At 11.50 P.M. on the 17th December the Dartmouth coastguards reported that a steamer was ashore on Slapton Sands, in Start Bay.
A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and visibility was...
Heron
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...
An Aeroplane (6)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
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Fishermen and the War
" FISHERMEN are regarded as a reserve for the Navy." So runs a circular of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries which, soon after the passing of the Military Service Act, was sent out to all seaports and fishing centres on our...
Category: Articles
Pollyann
Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force winds A service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on...