LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Parachute
APRIL 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A fisherman had reported what he believed to be a parachute coming down into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 13s..
An Aeroplane (162)
OCTOBER 25TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A parachute had been reported coming down some miles to the northward, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £11 15s..
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Three Saved After Motor Boat Capsizes
ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...
Category: Articles
Jane Cameron and Gleaner, and Mermaid
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 25th November, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was taken to Margate Roads in tow of the Ramsgate Harbour steam-tug Aid, during a strong N.N.E. gale and heavy sea, when she succeeded in saving the crew of 5 men from...
Sir John Snell and Lizbeth M
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LEWIS BENJAMIN HARRISON has been coxswain of Cromer No. 2 lifeboat since ist October, 1953. He joined the crew of No. 2 life-boat in 1931, and served as second coxswain of No. i life-boat for six years, from 1947 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Continental and Wansbeck
Cromer, Norfolk. At 5.35 on the morning of the 2nd of March, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Continental and the British ship Wans- beck had been in collision ten miles north-west-by-north of...
Steel Venture
Two lifeboats from Moelfre save fishing boat and crew service by Moelfre's two lifeboats has led framed letters of appreciation signed by chairman of the RNLI for Helmsman Rodney Pace and crew member Anthony Barclay of the D class...
A Racing Yacht
Swanage, Dorset.—-At 7.20 in the evening, on the 2nd of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small racing yacht with a crew of three was long overdue. It had last been seen four miles east of Peveril Point. At 7.40 the life-boat...