LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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AUGUST 20TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
An aeroplane was thought to have crashed in the sea, but what had been seen was flares dropped by an aeroplane. - Rewards, £12 5s..
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
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The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
by Roger Mansfield,
edited by Sam Bleakley
and Chris Power
Review by Liz Cook
This is no simple coffee-table beauty,...
Category: Articles
The News Agency Caption Said: 'Life-Boat Designer Mr. Richard Oakley Went Down With His Ship—And Came Up Smiling'
The news agency caption said: 'Life-boat designer, Mr. Richard Oakley, went down with his ship—and came up smiling'. The occasion? Capsizing trials at Portsmouth on 23rd June, 1966, when the second 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
Spitfire
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...
Shore Boat Service to French Trawler
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Coxswain Walter B. West, Assistant Motor Mechanic Ronald F. Twydle, and Cyril J. Barnicoat, shore...
Category: Services
A Gannet Aircraft (3)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
On Board the St. Abbs Life-Boat
On Board The St. Abbs Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs