LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Margate Motor Life-Boat at Calais
ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...
Category: Articles
Emulate, Honour, Random Harvest and Green Pastures (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS ESCORT COBLES Amble, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the weather deteriorated rapidly.
A north-north-easterly gale sprang up, and the sea became very...
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services
A Racing Skiff
Torbay, Devon - At 10.28 a.m on 9th April, 1967, it was reported that four youths were rowing from Teignmouth to Dartmouth in a 16-foot racing skiff. Their escort boat had gone aground and the youths had continued without it. As the sea was...
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
The Launch of the "Ipswich" Life-Boat
IN our January Number we gave an account of the spirited and philanthropic exertions of the inhabitants of Ipswich, headed by Mr. BATEMAN BYNG, to raise a fund for the establishment of a Life-boat station on the coast, and stated that so...
Category: Articles
Comedy Drama Role for Port Isaac Lifeboat
Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats In 1939
ENGLAND.
ELEVEN naming ceremonies of motor life-boats were held during 1939, seven in England, three in Scotland and one in Wales. Three other ceremonies, one in England, and two in Ireland, were cancelled owing to the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
Front Cover
Margate's Mersey class, Leonard Kent, stands by as tugs fight the fire aboard container vessel, Ever Decent, which collided with cruise liner, Norwegian Dream, off the Kent coast on 24 August. See Stop Press on services page 13 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs