LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
His Models Help the RNLI
£2,700 or more. Through HQ Scottish Command help was given under 'OPMAC (Operations with Military Assistance to the Civil Community). The location was reconnoitered by the 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., and plans were drawn up...
Category: Articles
Port St.Mary: Mrs a A Ritchie Names the Gough Ritchie With Her (Front Row I to R) Major - General Ralph Farrant Chairman Rnli the Bishop of Sodor and Man
Port St Mary: Mrs A. A.
Ritchie names The Gough Ritchie. With her (front row, I. to r.) Major - General Ralph Farrant, Chairman, RNLI, The Bishop of Sodor and Man, Bryan Doughty, chairman, Port St Mary branch, and John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northgate
Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 28th of January, 1949, there was dense fog, but the weather was calm, and at 5.10 the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Northgate, of Hull, was ashore close to the life-boat...
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Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
Antilope
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
Inaugural Ceremony at Maryport
ON 27th September the inaugural ceremony took place of the new motor life-boat which has been built for the station at Maryport, Cumberland. The new boat was welcomed by the Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L., Hereditary Admiral of the...
Category: Inaugurations
Shirley May
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
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ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1945, a man was cut off by the tide at Hele Bay, Ilfracombe. A marine told 73-year-old Mr.
C. Galliver, and the two men put out in a rowing boat. A fresh...
Category: Services
Lifeboat services continued from p. 47
continued from p. 47 1437: honorary secretary telephones Dover Coastguard and is told two children are drifting out to sea in a yellow inflatable, half a mile off Camber.
1438: maroons are fired.
1440: Rye...
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Life-Boat Memorial at Stonehaven
ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...
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