LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEPTEMBER 3RD. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 10.15 A.M. the coastguard reported that a man had dropped by parachute into the sea seven miles N.E. of Reculver. The sea was smooth, with a light N.W. wind. The motor life-boat J. B....
Various Vessels (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
150th Anniversaries of Life-Boat Stations
GUERNSEY Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, Secretary of the Institution, presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life-boat station at Guernsey, to Sir Thomas Elmhirst, Lieutenant-Governor and...
Category: Articles
School project 1976
OUT OF THE MANY ENTRIES W6 have received the following school projects from 9 to 13 years old were judged the best: First prize: A trip on one of Her Majesty's warships: Richard Evans Clevedon Comprehensive School, Avon Laura Brown...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
50 Years Ago Ship on Fire By Lieutenant L. A. C. May, R.M. (Ret.), Honorary Secretary, Holy head Station.
The telephone rings loud and loud; time 5.25 am, 22nd March 1937. 1 hasten to answer it and am informed by the...
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Death of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N.
ALL associated with the Institution will learn with deep regret that Com- mander Thomas Holmes, R.N., who was Chief Inspector of Life-boats from 1909-1919, having previously been Deputy Chief Inspector, and "District Inspector in...
Category: Obituaries
A Trawler
25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Woollen Comforts.
The Institution has received, as voluntary gifts, a great number of knitted woollen comforts of all kinds for its crews. It was thus possible to accumulate a large reserve of such comforts at Headquarters, and supplies have been sent to the...
Category: Articles
A Smack
On the 19th October the Llandwyn life-boat put off to the assistance of a smack which was dragging her anchor off the south coast of the Island of Anglesea, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. With the aid of the...