LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
Three Cromer Life-Boatmen Drowned
THE three life-boatmen who lost their ! lives when the crab boat Boy Jimmy sank a hundred yards off shore near Cromer were all members of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat.
One was the coxswain, James William Davies, who was...
Category: Obituaries
The Mumbles Lifeboat Station
The skipper and one of the crew of the yacht Duet, competing in this year's Three Peaks Yacht Race, presented £J,255 raised in sponsorship to The Mumbles lifeboat station. (I to r) Second Coxswain Alan Jones, Coxswain Derek Scott,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tiger Moth Aeroplane
THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, Humphrey Lestocq, was at the first floor window of his home on the afternoon of Friday August 27, 1982, watching the flight of a red Tiger Moth fitted with floats, a familiar sight in...
The S.S. Monte Nuria
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.32 in the morning of the 25th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Monte Nuria, of Bilbao, bound from Immingham to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, was aground at Sheringham. She had struck a sub-...
Gazelle (1)
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Awards to Honorary Workers
more than 10 years as Honorary Treasurer of the Bolton Branch, a Framed Photograph.
The following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries on completion To J. WIGNALL HODSON, Esq., upon his retirement after 10 years as...
Category: Awards
Stornoway's Arun Sir Max Aitken
Stornoway's Arun SirMaxAitken Is pictured from aboard the stranded merchant vessel Golf Star as the lifeboat stands by in worsening weather on 21 October 1995.
The Antiguan registered Golf Star was on passage from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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