LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Fishing Boats (3)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—20th January.
The life-boat was launched to escort in four fishing boats, but they ran for Stonehaven. — Rewards, £10 Os. 6d..
World Cup Travels In Style
The Webb Ellis Cup, England's trophy for winning the Rugby World Cup in 2003, was recently seen on the south coast as part of a four-month nationwide tour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
John Owston, Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat
John Owston Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1944
In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...
Category: Articles
Maria
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.10 early on the morning of the 4th of June, 1958, a message was received from the fishing boat Maria of Waterford that she was aground on Perch Rock at Portmagee.
At 12.30 the life-boat Rowland...
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Search for missing divers The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 (see previous page), and the efforts of...
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
Category: Articles
Lara of Bosham, and Dinghies
Four people landed A SUDDEN DETERIORATION in the weather on the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981, caught out a fleet of Fireball sailing dinghies at a meeting off Felpharn, and at 1730 HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...