LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Longhope Disaster
ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.
capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...
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Two Fishing Boats
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AS BOATS CROSS BAR Arbroath, Angus. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 15th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that two local fishing boats were awaiting the tide to enter...
An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
Shoreline
LOOKING BACK on this year's London Boat Show, held at Earls Court from January 5 to 15, there is no doubt that, for Shoreline, it was one of the most successful shows we have ever had. We can look back with pride! The Shoreline team,...
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Stamp Collection
COBO Rainbow Guides, pictured here with former lifeboatman John Webster, have been busy collecting thousands of stamps to raise money for the RNLI. The rainbows, aged between five and seven, have been collecting the stamps as part of their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
National Sponsored Swim 197Ii72 Made £20286 for Rnli Funds on May 10 Norman Crumble Chairman Cac Presented a Plaque to Ernest Warrington MBE
National sponsored swim 197II72 made £20,286for RNLl funds. On May 10 Norman Crumble, chairman CAC, presented a plaque to Ernest Warrington, MBE, president ASA, in gratitude for the generous support of the Amateur Swimming Association... - View image in PDF
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The Barges Ailsa, Britisher, Cetus, Decima, Royalty, Raybell and Una
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the 23rd November, 1938, the motor life-boat helped to save the barges Ailsa and Britisher, with their crews numbering four; rescued the crews, four men in all, of the barges Cetus...
A Gift from the Film Industry
THE Federation of British Industries has sent to the Institution a cheque for £817 2s. 10d., being half the net proceeds of the Gala Presentation of British films on 5th November of last year, which was arranged for the benefit of the...
Category: Donations
Mary
Filey, Yorkshire.—As darkness was gathering on the evening of the 26th of September, 1949, there was some anxiety felt for the safety of the fishing coble Mary which, with a crew of three, had been due in at noon. At 7.25 the life-boat The...
Marine Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition
THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...
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