LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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USED PARACHUTE FLARE Plymouth, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man in a cabin cruiser off Renney rocks was flashing a light and calling for help. It was half an hour after flood...
Hayman Lady
Ramsgate, Kent - At 9.15 p.m. on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the harbourbar. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 9...
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Galway Bay. At 3.50 p.m. on ist December, 1965, the local doctor notified the honorary secretary that a five-year-old boy who had a broken leg needed transport to hospital on the mainland. No other boat was available for this purpose, so the...
A Boy's Legacy
LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
Category: Donations
Birthday Treat:
Birthday treat: pictured right are two Poole schoolchildren, Katie Morgan 7'/2 and Richard Winter 11, who visited the RNLI's headquarters during the half term holiday, not only to enroll in the Storm Force Club for under 16s, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...
Wings of the Morning and Jonarra
Margate, Kent. At 5.19 on the after- noon of the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles east of Tongue Sand Fort. The life-boat North Fore- land (Civil...
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BOY FALLS FROM THE CLIFFS Wicklow.—On the evening of the 18th of May, 1947, a boy fell from the cliffs into the sea near the Wicklow Head Lighthouse. A life-buoy was thrown to him by a keeper and, although exhausted, the boy -was able...
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Saved from drowning IN THE EARLY EVENING of Saturday September 12, 1981, two girls, Leanne aged 10 and Lorna aged 8, were playing near the water's edge at Splash Point, to the east of Watchet Harbour mouth.
The weather...
R a Colby Cubbin No 1 a 46' 9" Midship Steering Watson Lifeboat Photograph By Courtesy of Beken and Son
R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 a 46' 9" midship steering Watson lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Beken and Son. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs