LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Liquified Gas Carrier Regitze Tholstrup
Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough...
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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Young Son Wayne Hutchings Aged 1'In Training' Last Year
Young son Wayne Hutchings, aged 1j,'in training' last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Store-Yard of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE annexed engraving represents the Store-yard of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It comprises sheds for stowage of Life-boats and their carriages, a rigging loft and ample store-rooms, an office for the storekeeper in charge, and two...
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A Rubber Air-float
Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..
An Air bed
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...