LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yarmouth: After Naming Joy and John Wade (Above) the Duke of Kent Went Afloat In the Lifeboat and Is Seen (Below) on the Flying Bridge With Coxswain David Kennett
Yarmouth: After naming Joy and John Wade (above), the Duke of Kent went afloat in the lifeboat and is seen (below) on the flying bridge with Coxswain David Kennett. (Left) Coxswain Kennett and Second Coxswain/ Mechanic Richard Whibley are... - View image in PDF
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Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman
Eight years worth of beard was shaved off Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman in front of a large crowd at the Country House Hotel in Ellacombe, Torquay, by local hairdresser Steve Siampourou. The reason was that £231 had been offered for the... - View image in PDF
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Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November and December, 1938, and January, 1939 Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Stranded Two Days In Cave
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
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Aztec
A run saves fishing vessel in storm force windsAservice last September by Thurso's Arun class lifeboat in very heavy weather and with only one engine fully operational has earned her coxswain, Second Coxswain William Munroe,...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in April were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Torbay, Devon - At 3.35 p.m. on ist April, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Paignton. The IRB was launched at 3.47 in a moderate to fresh south by westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water....
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A Christmas Pantomime 'Aladin' Performed By the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company Raised £2000 for Teesmouth Lifeboat Mr R E H Winterschladen Manager of the Company Toge
A Christmas pantomime, 'Aladin', performed by the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company raised £2,000 for Teesmouth lifeboat. Mr R. E. H. Winterschladen, manager of the company, together with members of the cast, presented... - View image in PDF
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Brothers In IRB Save Three
Two brothers who manned the Exmouth inshore rescue boat and who were washed overboard in an attempted rescue, have each been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum. They are Mr. Peter Rowsell, the helmsman, and Mr. Brian...
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A Hundred Years Ago
KESSINGLAXD, SUFFOLK.—In the ac- count we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature in the cause of "preservation of life from...
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