LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach, and that a doctor who was attending him had asked for the...
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 30th November, 1961, the honorary secretary received a request from the Superintendent of Trinity House, Cowes, for the life- boat to take off a sick man from the Owers lightvessel as soon as...
The Wireless Transmitting Station Radio Caroline
RADIO CAROLINE CALL Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 11.25 a-mon 27 ch January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Caroline, a wireless transmitting station in Ramsey Bay, was suffering from...
Storm Boy
Man overboard DUNGENESS lifeboat's Emergency Mechanic David Tart was fishing at sea on Wednesday, January 13, 1988 when he observed that a crew member had fallen overboard from the fishing vessel Storm Boy, and that the boat's...
A Capital Idea
GORDON STABLES, Esq., M.D., E.N., of Twyford, Berkshire, the well-known author, in a letter published a short time since in The Stock-keeper and Fancier's Chronicle, made the following admirable suggestion, which we trust may be carried...
Category: Correspondence
Singular Case of the Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening...
Category: Articles
Focus on . . . Ilfracombe
When the maroons are fired at Ilfracombe, on the North Devon Coast, everyone has a good chance of seeing the new life-boat, Lloyd's II, which is kept in the life-boat house below Lantern Hill, going on its carriage through the heart of...
Category: Articles
Manders Paints Ltd
Manders PROFESSIONAL PAINTS FOR PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE Manders can advise you on the The wider range includes red oxide, most suitable paint for your purpose, black bituminous paint, Machinery Our Five Star Premium range includes finishes and...
Category: Advertisement
Rhyl: PRESTATYN WOMEN DELIVER SUPPORT
Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...
Category: Articles
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On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...