LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A memorial to the crew of the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat who lost their lives on the night of 17th March, 1969, when their boat capsized in severe weather conditions, was unveiled in Osmondwall cemetery by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother...
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A Rowing Boat (4)
Dover, Kent. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 21st of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was in difficulties in Wear Bay. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 3.50 in a moderate sea....
Ellen (1)
Dover, Kent. At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 29th of December, 1959, the coastguard told the honorarysecretary that a small boat was in distress one mile north-east of Dover pier. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 2.30...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1960, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted to escort several local fishing cobles to harbour, as a gale was blowing from the east and causing a...
Kindly Light,
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 30th of January. 1957, the fishing boat Kindly Light, of Seahouscs, was reported over- due. At 11.23 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched in a very rough sea. There was a...
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
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Lady Isabella
Exmouth, Devon.—At 2.18 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been seen near Longshore Rock.
At 2.39 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched in a slight sea. There was a...
Enterprise
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Stornoway, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Enterprise of Stornoway had broken down one mile off...
Staff Put on Play
The Grosvenor Circle, a newly formed drama group of the headquarters staff of the R.N.L.I., staged their first production, Short Story, by Robert Morley, at the Abbey Community Centre Theatre, London, S.W.I, on 15th March, 1968.
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Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...