LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
A Letter from Three Collectors
"LAURAINE my cousin, Timothy my friend, and myself had a show in which we had on show our colections of buter- flies, moths, birds egg's cigarette cards, stamps, stons, moss and shells.
"Each person had to pay...
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Eagle
Shortly be- fore midnight on the 18th-19th March flares were observed about three miles to the north of the Winterton station, and the crew of the No. 2 Life-boat were promptly mustered. There was a strong S. by E. breeze with a heavy ground...
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
The R.A.S.C. Tender Sir Herbert Miles
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...
Making Money
A number of valuable fund raising suggestions have been put forward by Mrs.
W. E. Huntley, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and some of them are listed here.
• At a party or any social gathering ask couples...
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New Venture (1)
Sinking fishing boat NITON RADIO advised Solent Coastguard at 2031 on Saturday December30, 1978, that the 42ft fishing vessel New Venture reported to be midway between Nab Tower and Hayling Island had sent a message by VHP that she was...
Faithful
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. At midday on the 17th November, 1962. the North Sunderland coxswain, in the absence of the honorary secretary, told the coastguard that he felt anxious about the fishing vessel Faithful,...
Girl Norma
DF bearing OBAN COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Islay lifeboat station at 0216 on Wednesday February 16 that the fishing vessel Girl Norma had broken down to the west of Jura.
The night was dark and...
Shemara
Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...