LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SAW RED FLARE At ii.10 p.m. on lyth May, 1964, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning a red flare five to six miles off Portwrinkle.
Twenty-two minutes later the life-boat...
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FISHING COBLE FINDS BODY OF BOY Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 4th May, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Rosehearty bombing range. The police...
Twelfth Rnli Lottery Winners
Twelfth RNLI lottery winners BRUCE PARKER, a regular presenter of BBC South Today, came to Poole headquarters on April 30 to make the draw for the RNLl's twelfth national lottery. A Channel Islander who grew up on the Isle of Wight,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Crestville (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
IRB LAUNCHES
The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...
Category: Services
Under-14 Teams of Wold Junior Football League
Under-14 teams of Wold Junior Football League, East Yorkshire, have been competing this winter for the first time for a new football trophy for annual competition donated by the Lifeboat Crew's (Bridlington) Social Club. Fred Walkington,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Lieutenant Robert Mory
JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.
the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...
The Aith Hope Longhope) Life-Boat Crew
To the Coxswain and Crew of the Aith Hope Life-boat Samyntas Stannak, I respectfully dedicate these simple verses for their noble work on the iight of the 31st October. It 98, in connection with the disabled steamer Manchester City, during a...
Category: Poetry
The Greek Cargo Vessel Stelianos
GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.
The...
(Left) to Welcome Home Salcombe's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat the Baltic Exchange
(Left) To welcome home Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, after her capsize in 1983 and complete survey and overhaul which followed, piper Gordon McCormack, landlord of The Shipwright's Arms, boarded the station'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs