LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
76 Year Old Edwin E. Distin (seated), the Only Survivor of the 1916 Life-Boat Disaster at Salcombe
76 year old Edwin E.
Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Hasting Double
Hastings’ relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright was called out on two medevacs in the same week.
On 12 March, the lifeboat crew brought a fisherman safely ashore, having stabilised his injured ankle. This was the...
Category: Articles
Nicolaou Virginia (1)
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
Filey's Boathouse
Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Belmura
GUNWALES AWASH At 8.15 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, a local resident telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in the fresh south-easterly breeze and moderate seas at Saundersfoot.
The...
The Following Are Extracts from the General Rules of Management
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE GENERAL RULES OF MANAGEMENT :— " Each Life-boat to have a Coxswain Superintendent, with a fixed Annual Salary of £8.
" The Life-boat to be regularly taken afloat for...
Category: Accounts
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
Castrol Ltd
Britain's lifi depend on i so can you When engine dependability counts above all else, Castrol is chosen because it is proved safe for all engines . . . on the sea, in the air, and on the road. No other oil can match the Castrol total of...
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