LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JUNE 6TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Airmen had baled out from a British bombing aeroplane returning from the invasion of France, but some of them had already been rescued by Portland fishermen. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d. (See...
Crystal Clean
Prawn trawler Crystal Star started taking on water in the Irish Sea on 18 March and lifeboats from Kilkeel (B class Frank William Walton) and Port St Mary (Trent class Gough Ritchie II) were launched to her aid.
Kilkeel...
Category: Articles
Triton
SEAMAN'S INJURIES St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 a.m. on 2nd April, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by the radio medico service that the Belgian trawler Triton of Zeebrugge was proceeding towards St. Ives Bay with a badly injured...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
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Pushing the Boat Out (Above and Left}
Pushing the boat out (above and left} ~ In September Bundoran branch organised a sponsored 'boat push' from Ballyshannon to Bundoran which raised £2,500 for lifeboat funds,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service. Its Expenditure at a Glance. Its Income at a Glance.
Its Expenditure at a Glance How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1954 £ s. d.
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Category: Accounts
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The Story of the St Davids Lifeboats by Dr George Middleton Doctor Middleton's 42- page A5 booklet chronicling the history of the lifeboats in this delightful corner of Wales is now in its fifth...
Category: Articles
Albatross
Propeller fouled NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CALLS were received by Brixham Coastguard at about 0120 on Wednesday August 18, 1982, reporting the sighting of red flares off Teignmouth Pier. Teignmouth Coastguard rescue company were immediately alerted...
With Thanks...
Nine-year-old Jennifer Stone of Onchan, Isle of Man, was determined to say 'thank you' to members of the Douglas lifeboat crew who rescued her last year when she and her uncle were cut off by the tide when walking along the shoreline... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs