LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Four T.I.D. Tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115
JANUARY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. As soon as the Eileena had been brought in the coxswain reported it to the naval control, which at once asked him to go out again to the four T.I.D. tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115. The previous night,...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the morning of the 24th January there was a very urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishere, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. The sea was very rough and the wind so strong that no boat...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...
Two Thunder Jet Aircraft
Margate, Kent. At 6.5 on the even- ing of the 13th of November, 1957, an anticipatory message was received from the coastguard reporting a message from the United States Air Force base at Manston that two Thunder Jet air- craft were missing....
Shoreline
Subscription rates Shoreline goes from strength to strength; there are 116,000 members at the moment with hundreds of new applications received at RNLI headquarters every month. Inevitably, subscription rates must keep in line with rising...
Category: Articles
Zulu
SEVEN ON BOARD At 3.16 p.m. on 2ist September, 1964, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yawl appeared to have engine trouble and was drifting in the moderate seas and gentle south-easterly breeze near Quern buoy. At...
Leeds Shoreline Branch
Leeds Shoreline branch have a portable stall, enclosed on three sides and roofed, which will fit into a small trailer. The sign above it was painted by one of their members, Paul Thompson, and at a traction engine rally held at Harewood... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Imbibing on the Sands
"A party of trustees, with their wives and daughters, agree to meet at some commodious hotel in the vicinity of a life-boat station, the day is fine, and the party are perhaps themselves rowed out a couple of miles—a daring deed, which...
Category: Articles
When Mrs Anne Armstrong Former American Ambassador to Britain Visited Plymouth Lifeboat Station In February Coxswain John Dare Welcomed Her Aboard the 44'
When Mrs Anne Armstrong, former American Ambassador to Britain, visited Plymouth lifeboat station in February, Coxswain John Dare welcomed her aboard the 44' Waveney lifebout Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II with a yellow rose posy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services