LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Minehead lifeboat men a 'tremendous help' during floods The crew of Minehead's lifeboats and the station's shore helpers all came in for praise when some of the worst storms in living memory battered the north Somerset town...
Desire
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN NIGHT SEARCH Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys.
At 8.17 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the Stromness honorary secretary that the family of a man who had gone out in the...
Teachers
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Front Cover
Front cover Shoreham lifeboatman Ian Cosham brings a small child to dry land during the terrible floods in Uckfield. For the full story see pages 14 & 16.
Photo © Steve Edwards, Shoreham lifeboat launcher.View image in PDF
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One Act Plays
Two new one act plays on the subject of the Life-boat Service have recently been written. Both are available to branches for local performances, and in each case the author is willing to forgo any royalties when branches produce the play in...
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Hurrying Home
A Bridlington fishing-boat coming into harbour on 17th January, 1937. The motor lifeboat, though not in the photograph, is escorting her. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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A Parachute (1)
OCTOBER 2lST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A parachute had been seen coming down, but only a large patch of oil was found.- Rewards, £36 0s. 6d..
The Thames on Trial
Stages in the self-righting trials of the 50ft Thames type at Brooke Marine Ltd, Lowestoft, in May and pictures of her at speed off the Suffolk coast by courtesy of Ford Jenkins and Brooke Marine Ltd. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...
The S.S. Cid
WALMEH.—The s.s. Cid, of and for Barcelona, laden with coal from the Tyne, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in a dense fog on the morning of the 6th July. Signals were fired by the South Sand Head Light-vessel in response to which the Life-boat...