LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat from a Pilot Vessel
BOYS RESCUED Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.7 a.m. on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boat from a pilot vessel with two boys on board had broken down, was unlit and drifting up river. At 2.35 the...
Chichester Yacht Basin
a rather nice marina The Chichester Yacht Basin is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment programme, which means by April 1989, well have created an additional 120 berths.
So if you're quick to apply, you could...
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Cdr Leslie Hill Answers the Questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Anthony Barber on the Rnll's Principal Exhibit An Atlantic 21Ilb (Below) Photograph By C
Cdr Leslie Hill answers the questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Anthony Barber on the RNLl's principal exhibit, an Atlantic 21ILB (below). - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Fox Photos. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (7)
MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...
The Folio Society
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Swimming
PERHAPS the widely-spread belief amongst our sailors in the existence of a sweet little cherub, whose peculiar mission it is to sit up aloft, and keep watch for the life of poor Jack, is one of the reasons why poor Jack takes such very...
Category: Articles
Two Picket Boats from H.M.S. Franklin
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...
Obituaries
Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...
Category: Obituaries
North East South East: the Naming of Humber Lifeboat September 10 and Newhaven Lifeboat September 18
THERE WAS MUCH that was unusual in the naming ceremony of the 54' Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV on Saturday, September 10; but then, there is much that is unusual about Humber, her station. Isolated at the seaward end of a long...
Category: Inaugurations
Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
On the night of the 6th March, lights were observed from Holyhead, n the neighbourhood of the Clipera Rocks.
The life-boat stationed at Holyhead was ac- cordingly launched, and proceeded to the ;pot in the face of a heavy...