LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St.Helier Jersey August 23 1987:
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.
Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
(Continued From p....
Category: Articles
Al Mor
Over marshes AT ABOUT 1630 on Wednesday December 17, 1980, Alan Coster, assistant harbour master at Lymington and a member of the lifeboat crew, received a telephone call from the Sealink offices, Lymington, with information relayed from a...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (3)
On the 10th October, 1939, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Saltaire, of Grimsby. Later the men returned to their ship, with the owner’s agent, and seven were rescued a second time by the life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
Cullercoats News
Although the Cullercoats, Northumberland, life-boat station has been closed, support for the life-boat service is as strong as ever it was. All local fund-raising events are to go on as usual, those for the rest of the year being a coffee...
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Shoreline and Storm Force
Membership survey LAST YEAR questionnaires were sent to 2,000 Shoreline members in a survey which aimed to find out more about membership to help future recruiting.
Over 1,000 completed forms were returned and analysed by...
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The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
Her most Gracious Majesty the...
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The Fundraisers
Five men in a boat Tomost people, the idea of rowing across the Irish Sea is incomprehensible, and it was with a degree of trepidation that five amateurs set out at 0330 on Saturday 27 May from Holyhead to tackle the feat and raise money for...
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