LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Readers’ Offer For All Who Love The Sea
READER OFFER In it, on it, beside it – for those who love the sea, the world’s ? rst glossy magazine on the subject will be launched in April by Signature Publishing.
The Sea magazine will cover all things marine, from news...
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Life-Boat Calendar for 1943.
The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
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A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
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A Rowing Boat
Capsized rowing boat TWO FISHERMEN of Newbiggin launched their ferrier rowing boat to go out to their keep-box moored offshore at about 1115 on Friday, January 31, 1975.
When only a short distance from the shore, some 50 to...
The Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891
THE series of Exhibitions held in London during the last few years would certainly have been incomplete without one to illustrate the history, development and progress of the Navy. Such an under- taking could not fail to enlist public...
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How the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Was Launched
EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...
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A Boat
10th August.
Two fishermen reported that they had picked up another fisherman's boat.
The life-boat went out to look for him and found his lobster pots, but no trace of the man.—Rewards, £4 10s....
A Rowing Boat (2)
Selsey, Sussex.—19th August, 1939.
It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the lifeboat could find nothing.—Rewards, £11 15s..
Sailing Dinghy
THREE MEN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY CAPSIZES Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 24th May, 1962, the police informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Douglas Bay about a quarter of a mile off...
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SPECIAL AWARD Swanage, Dorset. On 8th May, 1965, the Swanage life-boat R.L.P. helped in the rescue of a man from a cliff-face. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...