LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
LAUNCH TO LIGHTVESSEL FOR SICK MAN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary treasurer that a member of the crew of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel was sick and needed hospital...
A Sailing Dinghy
DIVERTED ON PASSAGE Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At i p.m. on I4th February, 1965, the life-boat O.N.
44-001 received whilst on passage between Littlehampton and Cowes a radio message from the coaster Chartsman that she had...
The S.S. Amiral Aube
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...
Sea Knight
EMPTY CABIN CRUISER AND DINGHY FOUND Poole, Dorset. At 2.35 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the police informed the coastguard that two men were missing in a cabin cruiser. They had left twelve hours earlier to dig for bait at...
A Dinghy (2)
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off shore. At three o'clock the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a...
An Inland Service
To the help of a flooded farm. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...
£5 By Benefit of Theft
WHEN thieves broke into the Whitby County Club at the end of last year and robbed the till of £5, they also took a life-boat collecting box containing £11 10s. The Prudential Assurance Company replaced not only the £5 taken...
Category: Articles
School Adopts Whitstable IRB
Following the sponsored walk last November, there was a presentation ceremony at Walford School, Ealing, early this year to hand over to the R.N.L.I.
a cheque for £1,017 11s.—the proceeds from the walk and other small...
Category: Correspondence
Thats My Girl
Pictured above is Coxswain Malcolm Gray of St Davids lifeboat with his youngest crew member/daughter, Gillian, following the rescue of a fishing vessel last May.
There are a number of crews who consist of more than one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs