LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...
Mr. T. Hall,
The death is recorded of Mr. T. Hall, a former Amble coxswain, who served as boat's officer for 16 years. He was 75..
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Cornish
The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...
Walmer Life-Boat Station from the Air
Walmer Life-Boat Station From The Air. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Erna
The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel became a total wreck,...
Ho, Ho, Ho...
Ho, ho, ho...
...and a bottle of rum! Tom Greer of Watson's Rum presents £1,500 to area organiser Colin Lawson in the presence of the Anstruther crew in April. The money was collected from rum bottles strategically... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prince Ivanhoe Holed and Aground Off Horton Beach With the Mumbles 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Alongside Photograph By Courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'
Prince Ivanhoe holed and aground off Horton beach with The Mumbles 47ft Watson lifeboat alongside. photograph by courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Having Been Given a Monster Potato By a Customer the Landlord of the Sir Douglas Haig Effingham Rod Davis and His Wife Jean Held a Competition to Guess How
Having been given a monster potato by a customer, the landlord of The Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham, Rod Davis, and his wife, Jean, held a competition to guess how many bags of crisps could be made from it. At lOp a guess, £23.60 was soon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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First ever bravery award for an RNLI lifeguard Mark Johnson made RNLI history in December when he was awarded the Thanks on Vellum after saving the life of a man who was being washed out to sea. Mark is the first RNLI beach lifeguard to...
Herne Bay Branch's 1983
The Viking conquerors who, invading the Kentish coast last July with their twin-hulled Nor-dick, defeated 42 other rafts in Herne Bay branch's 1983 raft race by being voted best raft and crew and by collecting the most in sponsorship,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs