LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vera Robinson Mbe
No article on the Zetland and the RNLI at Redcar would be complete without mention of Vera Robinson MBE. Vera joined the Redcar ladies lifeboat guild as a committee member in 1930 and has held every position in the fl guild during the last... - View image in PDF
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Jupiter
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Wallasey Police reported that two people on a yacht at the foot of the sea wall were calling for help. At 4.45 the No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson put...
(Right) the Lord Mayor of London Has Been An Exofficio Member of the Institution's Committee of Management Since 1918 When the Present Lord Mayor Sir Robin Ci
(right) The Lord Mayor of London has been an exofficio member of the Institution's Committee of Management since 1918.
When the present Lord Mayor, Sir Robin Cillett (I.), himself a seaman and a strong supporter of the... - View image in PDF
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Mac (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Thelma
BARGE SINKING IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a barge, from which they had rescued a woman, was drifting away from the pier and sinking, and her...
Morning: Harold Appleton One of the Shoreline Bout Show Team Talking to Crew Member Lex Fay of Blyth
Morning: Harold Appleton, one of the Shoreline Bout Show team, talking to Crew Member Lex Fay of Blyth.. - View image in PDF
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Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 1 Lives rescued 4 VALENTIA, Co. KERRY. The auxiliary broken down. A strong east-south-east wind rescue-boat, St. Bernard, was returning to harbour on the night of the 22nd of May, was then blowing and the sea was rough.
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Category: Services
Puffin
Southend-on-Sca, Essex - At 10.50 a.m. on I2th February, 1967, attention was drawn to a small fishing boat, with an angling party on board, reported to be in distress offCanvey Point. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
A Speed Boat
Club safety boat rescues four An incident which took place in the Ribble Estuary on 13 August this year has earned Mr Richard Blackburn the thanks of the chief of operations after he launched the Ribble Cruising Club rescue boat to save the...
The S.S. Santa Rita
The Motor Life- boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 6.40 A.M. on the 31st October, as information had been received from the Coastguard that a vessel was on the Tongue Sand. She found the s.s. Santa Rita, of Panama,...