LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blink
No. 2 Life-boat Area Troon, Ayrshire - At 10.45 p.m. on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Great Cumbrae at Ballochmartin bay. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill slipped her...
Shell Duck
Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.48 a.m. on 2nd June, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Shell Duck had been seen by a helicopter apparently broken down surrounded by oil three miles south west of Newarp...
Swimming in style
The evolution of the humble swimsuit tells an interesting story of wider social conventions …
Daft costumes are the order of the day when it comes to a festive fundraising dip for charity but,...
Category: Articles
Hsl
HSL ESTABLISHED 1968" FREE DELIVERY (UK MAINLAND) --• -»uc entire/ sssxasesa&L ~ ~ v ~vvNy- -v -V" BACK-CARE CHAIRS for easy sitting & rising FROM ONLY FULirADJUSTABLE ELECTRICALLY OPERATED BEDS, with push-button...
Category: Advertisement
Sir David a G Mackworth Bt, Cdr Rn,
Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Services
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—During the late October storms the Life-boats belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION were successful in saving the lives of many persons on board shipwrecked and foundering vessels. The Pembrey (South Wales) Life...
Category: Services
Magnet (1)
WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...
Long Hope Life-Boat Crew 1963
Long Hope Life-Boat Crew 1963. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right - the Relentless Heat Beats Down on the Brave Volunteers and Their D Class Lifeboats.
Right - the relentless heal beats down on the brave volunteers and their D class lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MATERNITY CASE Galway Bay. At 10 a.m. on loth June, £965, the doctor at Kilronan told the lifeboat authorities that he had a maternity patient who needed immediate hospital treatment and, as there was no other suitable boat available,...