LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The R.A.F. High Speed Launch 170
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 8.53 at night the coastguard reported that the R.A.F. high speed launch 170 was ashore on the rocks under Buckie coastguard station. A strong squally W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire May 24.
Abersoch. Gwynedd April 13, 18 and May 30.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed May 5.
Arran, Buteshire April 25 (twice).
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan...
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Books
Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
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John & Eve Edwards
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No ordinary Jo
She made a comedy career from pouring scorn, but when it comes to the sea and those who rescue people from it, Jo Brand is positively gushing
It’s Jo Brand’s turn to jump in. She grabs her...
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Services of the Life-Boats In November and December, 1952, and January and February, 1953. 112 Lives Rescued
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A Fine Service at Broughty Ferry
ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...
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Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
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Reviews
The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...