LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to Yacht Aground Off Weymouth Pier
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services
Boy Billy, Our Boys and June Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel
AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
Category: Services
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Bather in difficulty HUMBER COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station at 1634 on Friday August 19, 1983, that a bather was in difficulty at Theddlethorpe, about three miles to the north of the station....
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 526 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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Four Generations at Worthing
Reading from left to right: William Blann (the Coxswain), his grandson, his son, Henry Blann (Bowman), and George Newman (Second Coxswain). In front is Thomas Blann, who was Second Coxswain in the Institution's first Life-boat stationed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Terlings
SEAHAM, Co. DURHAM.—At 6.30 A.M.
on the 6th May the s.s. Terlings, of London, bound from Bochester for Seaham, in ballast, in approaching the harbour during a fog went too far to the southward, struck the rocks and filled....
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
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A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...