LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Few of Scarborough's Visitors
Few of Scarborough's summer visitors realise the extent of the lifeboat slipway, much of which is now buried by the rising level of the sand. Recent investigations showed it to be in remarkably good condition.
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4. Sergeant Bob Martin
Sergeant Bob Martin has single-handedly raised £200,000 by collecting at the London and Southampton Boat Shows and other events, continuing a long and fruitful relationship between the RNLI and the Chelsea Hospital. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 8TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Star shells fired from a naval vessel had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £12 2s..
The Norwegian Fish Carrier Arnoytrans
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....
Mfv St.Patrick Taking Water Into Her Engine Room Was Towed Into Harbour on November 12 1975 By the 44' Waveney Lifeboat 40-001 on Temporary Duty at Great Yarmo
MFV St Patrick, taking water into her engine room, was towed into harbour on November 12, 1975, by the 44' Waveney lifeboat 40-001, on temporary duty at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.
The lifeboat was under the command... - View image in PDF
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Boy George
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry West of Sheringham. He was appointed assistant motor mech- anic in 1940, became second coxswain in 1947 and coxswain in 1951. Cox- swain West was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the...
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Air Cases
Air cases of the 4I-feet Watson motor life-boat stationed at Shoreham Harbour. This type has 145 of these cases.. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat
'Tw night! npou the Cornish coast lull load the breakers roar, And helplessly yon gallant barque Drifts on the dark lee shore ; And quickly now the signal gnns Boom high above the gale.
O many a dark-ey'd Cornish...
Category: Songs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...
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