LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Yacht
JUNE 18TH. - DUNGENESS. KENT. An Admiralty yacht’s engine had broken down, but her crew were able to repair it. - Rewards, £10 17s. 6d..
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JANUARY 12TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A man had been reported to have baled out from an aeroplane, but it was a target drogue that had been released by the aeroplane.- Rewards, £3 15s.
An Aeroplane (3)
FEBRUARY 3RD. - ALDEBURGH , SUFFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down off Aldeburgh, but it was found to be much further north and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £43 11s.
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Appledore, Devon - At 7.16 p.m. on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boys were stranded on the rocks on the south side of Baggy point. The lifeboat Louisa Anne Hawker with the boarding boat in tow slipped...
Girl Pat
Troon, Ayrshire - At 6.45 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, a pilot at Irvine harbour informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Girl Pat appeared to be in difficulties about 500 yards off the entrance to Irvine harbour. There was a...
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BOY FELL OVER CLIFFS Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 p.m. on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a boy had been reported as having fallen over the cliffs at Ravenscar. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 6.40 in a...
Feature: Meet the Crew and Meet the Supporters
Men and women around the coast give up their time to train for and carry out lifeboat launches A Silver Medal-winning rescue by Cteethorpes and Number was featured in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat. As with many, the Cleethorpes crew...
Category: Articles
Albin Ballad
Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...
The Life-Boat, Song, and Duet
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is indubitably not a, romance, but one of hard practical fact. The Institution has nought to do with " Dreamland," but its mission is, from our rugged and storm-beaten shores, to...
Category: Songs
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Portrush, Co. Antrim - At 2.54 p.m.
on 17th December, 1966, a body was seen 180 yards offshore. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4} launched at 3 o'clock in a west south westerly gale and a rough sea. The...