LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F.High-Speed Launch No. 124
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off Hartlepool.
Her compass had gone wrong and she could not...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
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Alan Malcolm
Alan Malcolm prepares for his 60m abseil for the lifeboats. - View image in PDF
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Long Service to Oil Tanker
WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.
The first report to reach a life-boat station came...
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Sea Beat (Continued from Page 270)
(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
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Evett Sailwear Ltd
We invite you to inspect our FOUL WEATHER GARMENTS made for discriminating Yachtsmen and Nautical Organisations, at the LONDON BOAT SHOW STAND No. WH.23 EVETT SAILWEAR LTD.
TIMBER HALL WORKS THE SQUARE CATERHAM, SURREY, CR3...
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Swimmers rescued from surf-swept pier supports The Chief of Operations has written to congratulate crew member Steven Tester of Littlehampton's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter I following the rescue of two swimmers on 16 July...
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer (1)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
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JANUARY 4TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the 2nd January, Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, telephoned that the Queen’s District Nurse on Foula Island was dangerously ill and would have to be taken to the...
Leicester City
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...