LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
the Evelyn and Margaret, and the Courage
MAY 11TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
Cobles were out fishing, and at 11.45 in the morning, as a strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, the life-boat coxswain decided that it was not safe for them to come in...
Ways and Means
Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.
I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...
Category: Donations
People and Places
Mayor of Poole picks the winners Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Taia and Standig
Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...
Catherine and Alice
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. — On the 29th August, at about 9 A.M., a telegram was received from Brighton stating that a vessel flying a signal of distress had passed that town and was drifting, quite disabled, towards Newhaven, having lost her...
Salazar and Painted Lady
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 3.20 p.m.
on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Salazar had broken down and was being carried over the Burbo bank.
There were two people on board.<...
Products and Services Guide
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Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
The Holiday Property Bond
"MAKING THE POUNDS GO FURTHER" "Faith, for a clergyman, is an essential ingredient of life. Hut back in /V.S'/ Vi'eiuly and I had to apply it in a more secular situation - whether or not to infest in HPR. In its early...
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Marie and Therese
Atnoonon2istAugust, 1966, the French fishing vessel Marie and Therese was stated to have broken down about 30 miles north by west of Strumble Head. There was a fresh north north easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...