LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Slipway Trials Gave Tenby's Lifeboat Crew the Chance to Test the Tamar for Themselves
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Category: Photographs
Peter MacDonald Fulton (1)
Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from...
Category: Obituaries
The Coast-Guard Service: Its Origin and Life-Saving Work
A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- vention of smuggling, from which the present Coast-guard Service has evolved, was already in existence in this country in the early part of the eighteenth century. In those days a consider- able force was...
Category: Articles
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (2)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boat Men
To WM. CHAS. JAMES, on his retirement, after serving four years as Second Coxswain and eighteen years as Coxswain of the Point of Ayr Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To JOSEPH HUGHES, on his...
Category: Awards
Silver Line
Coble escort FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD told the honorary secretary of Flamborough lifeboat station at 1030 on Friday January 16 that the fishing coble Silver Line was hauling her lines north of Flamborough Head in heavy snow with a heavy...
Two Vessels
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
The Bull Light-Vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the llth May in response to a message received from the Humber Conservancy that a vessel had collided with the Bull light-vessel during a fog. The...
Shearwater II
RUDDERS JAMMED At. 5.2 a.m. on i8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had gone onto the rocks at Foreness in a fresh northwesterly breeze and moderate sea. He was keeping the vessel under...
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AUGUST 29TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 3.15 P.M. the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take a young woman, suffering from acute appendicitis, to hospital at Oban, as there would be no steamer until the...