LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Redcar, Yorks. At 6.55 p.m. on July, 1964, the coastguard told the lifeboat crew that three people were cut off by the tide on West Scar rocks. At 7 p.m.
the inshore rescue boat launched in a slight westerly breeze and calm...
Maratha Enterprise
Workington, Cumberland. At 7 p.m.
on I3th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Maratha Enterprise of Nassau.
The life-boat...
A Gannet Aircraft
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...
Takings Up at Downside's Souvenir Shop
Takings up at Downside's souvenir shop For several years the boys at Downside Lodge, Purley, have supported Purley's Lifeboat Week. They buy from the souvenir shop set up in the school hall each day and this year the gross takings at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newquay Jailbirds
Seven members of the Newquay, Cornwall ladies lifeboat guild, who between them have given 183 years of service to the Institution, were overall winners in the Newquay Carnival in July.
The ladies, two of whom have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
A Boat
On the 27th December, during a heavy gale of wind, the Civil Service life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore 9 men from the Dogger Bank. They had been employed there by the Wexford Harbour Commissioners, and were unable to reach the...
Ellen, of Llanelly
Two days afterwards the same Life-boat was again launched during a gale from the S.S.W., and in a heavy sea, and assisted the barque Elltn, of Llanelly, into a place of safety, she being in distress at the time.
It was not...
An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE summer months are practically the high season of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and throughout the country, north, south, east and west, the various Local and District Committees, including the Ladies' Auxiliaries—without whose...
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