LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1960, a report was received that two boys were cut off by the rising tide at Broad Cove. Owing to rough seas it was not possible for a boat to come close inshore, and the...
A R.A.F. Dinghy
'Abandoned' airman retrieved from dinghy Cullercoats East Division Lifeboats and helicopters are frequent partners in rescue missions, so there was nothing unusual in Cullercoat's C class inflatable working with a helicopter crew...
Maggie
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
The St. Gowan Lightvessel.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the St. Gowan light vessel. The life-boat White Star was launched with a doctor on board at 11.14...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
M.B.E. for Norfolk Coxswain
Coxswain Theodore Neilsen, of Wells, Norfolk, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire. The services for which the award has been made have not been published. Coxswain Neilsen, went with the rest of the fishermen of Wells...
Category: Articles
Annual Outrageous Raft Race
Any more flares? One of the 42 entrants in the annual Outrageous Raft Race organised by Harrison and Sons sports and social club, the High Wycombe branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club and Marlow Canoe Club. The course was a half-mile stretch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Open Boat
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 7.30 P.M.
011 the 20th August, 1939, a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was...
Hunzeborg
Walmer, Kent - At 10.4 a.m. on i3th August, 1966, the honorary secretary heard an S.O.S. call from the Dutch coaster Hunzeborg reporting that she had been in collision with the Greek freighter Diamandis, south of the East Goodwin lightship....
Fishing Cobles
A number of Spittal fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 24th March, when a N.E. wind sprang up, with a very heavy sea run- ning on the bar. It was seen that the small craft would have great difficulty in reaching the...