LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1945, a man was cut off by the tide at Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. A marine told 73-year-old Mr.
C. Galliver, and the two men put out in a rowing boat. A fresh...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...
Category: Poetry
The Torpedo Destroyer Beaver
At 5.40 A.M. on the 21st December, during smooth but foggy weather, a new torpedo destroyer named the Beaver stranded about 1J miles south of Hasborough Lighthouse. The vessel had only re- cently been launched and was on her way to...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Gloves - £7 Dry Suit - £245 First Aid kit - £245 Lifejacket - £182 Compass - £248 Radio - £535 And how would Sir like to pay? Lifeboats MasterCard will do nicely.
Because if you switch from...
Category: Advertisement
Lloyd's II
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
Category: Inaugurations
Index to Advertisers
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Castrol Ltd 31 C.A.V. Ltd 25 Chloride Group Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coastal Radio Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27...
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Station secretary saves drowning man Trearddur Bay honorary secretary Jack Abbott was awarded a Royal Humane Society award and Resuscitation Certificate for saving the life of a man he found face down in the sea on 24...
Hunstanton Atlantic 75
23 May 1999 - Sharon Parke anoints the new Hunstanton Atlantic 75 with Champagne as she names the €71,000 lifeboat, DJS Haverhill, in memory of her late uncle, David James Sisson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
Category: Articles
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
She...