LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Father and son trapped in cave Adifficult and dangerous service by Port Isaac's D class inshore lifeboat has led to the award of the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum to her helmsman Kevin Dingle and to a crew member, Mike Edkins.
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Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
Long Service Awards
The Long Service Badge for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aith - Assistant Mechanic J.W. Hunter (posthumous) Bembridge - Winchman O. Harbour Blackpool - Crew Member...
Category: Awards
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
The Centenary: In the South-West of England
BERKSHIRE.
Reading.
A ROYAL CENTENARY MATINEE was held on 10th May, which was a great success, and was attended by H.R.H. the Prin- cess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild...
Category: Articles
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SEPTEMBER 26TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. A sailing boat had been reported in distress, but no boat was found or reported missing. The Bullock-More Buoy had broken adrift and may have been mistaken for a boat. - Rewards, £8...
Lotos
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 11.0 on the night of the 3rd of March, 1951, a life- boatman heard a siren and saw flares from a ship ashore at Brims Ness; andat 11.20 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched. There was a heavy swell with a moderate...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 8.10 in the evening of Sunday, the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard informed the life- boat station that a small boy had fallen down the cliff and a rescue party had found him, but that it was impossible for them to...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Frederick Swarts, of Barry Dock, who has been coxswain since the 1st April, 1956. For nearly ten years before that he was second coxswain.
Since he became a boat's officer...
Category: Articles
Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch
Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs