LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sharon (1)
Minehead, Somerset, and Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly-At 12.50 a.m. on 24th September, 1967, it was learnt that a youth had taken out a yacht which was now drifting out to sea. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 1.12 in a light variable...
Dodo V
Girvan, Ayrshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down because of a defect in her steering six miles north of Corsewall Point. A num- ber...
Out in the cold
When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’
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Gunhild
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...
Lizzie
Propeller fouled A SOFT FISHING BOAT, Lizzie, With tWO men on board was reported overdue by a fisherman at Annan on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 29, 1986. The deputy launching authority at Silloth...
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Please Sir, We'Ll Have Some More...
During a long and tiring search for some missing divers in the Channel on 17 August, Selsey and Newhaven lifeboat crews were replenished with breakfast and a roast dinner.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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In Retirement Services
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A tax-free cash lump sum to...
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Old Life-Boats
IT is one of the unvarying rules of the Institution that the materiel of the Service shall be as perfect as it can be made. Only the best materials are used for the Life-boats and their gear; and everything is done, by careful andfrequent...
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