LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below Right) Coxswain Harry Jones Welcomes the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant to Hoylake Lifeboat Station on April 25 Committee and Crew Were Present In Str
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
Hector
The No. 1 Life-boat of this station, the Parsee, after two unsuccessful attempts, boarded the Hector, a brigantine of New- castle, which on the 9th December was run ashore by her crew to avoid foundering.
This service was...
Greyling
'Dismasted5 yacht found sailing after long search Crew member Alan Channell of the Poole lifeboat Inner Wheel has been sent a letter of thanks signed by the Chief of Operations following a service in which he was put aboard a yacht off...
When the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli Visited Cowes Isle of Wight on October 5 He Witnessed the Self-Righting Trial In Samuel White's Yard of the 37' 6" Rother Cla
When the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Cowes, Isle of Wight, on October 5 he witnessed the self-righting trial in Samuel White's yard of the 37' 6" Rather class lifeboat which will be stationed at Dungeness; he... - View image in PDF
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Harriet
HARWICH.—In reply to signals from the Cork Light-ship denoting that a vessel was on the Sands, the steam Lifeboat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 7.5 P.M., on the 17th May, and proceeded through a moderate sea to the assistance of the...
Sunny Seas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.8. on the evening of the 27th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Sunny Seas needed help one mile west of Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 8.16. The sea...
£53,000 Damage.
In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...
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MAY 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Four parachutes had been reported falling into the sea, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £3 12s. 6d..
Loch Lorgan (1)
TRAWLER AGROUND At 2 p.m. on I3th December, 1963, the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at the request of the Colne Fishing Company to lay out an anchor in an attempt to refloat the trawler Loch Lorgan of Lowestoft which was ashore at...