LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The rescue of a swimmer and two earned the helmsman and crew of lifeguards who had gone to his aid has Sunderland's D class lifeboat and two shore helpers a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations.The incident began at...
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver
In the December 1965 issue an obituary notice appeared of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., which was necessarily brief because of pressure on space. It would, indeed, be difficult to do justice to...
Category: Obituaries
Two Exhibitions
Ax exhibition of life-boats through the ages was opened at Life-boat House, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, by Commodore the Earl Howe, deputy chairman of the Institution, on the 3rd of December, 1954.
The exhibition...
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Europe
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
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-...
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Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: SEPTEMBER 1989: Mr Geoff Shakerley, vice chairman and box secretary of Wootton Bassett and District branch from 1977 until his death. He was also a shore helper at Swanage and was...
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Constanze
Six saved from sinking German yachtA service by the Dover lifeboat, the Thames class Rotary Service, on 25 August 1992 has earned her coxswain, Anthony Hawkins, and his crew a letter of appreciation from Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI'...
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.
breeze was blowing, but the...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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A Catamaran and a Dinghy
Catamaran aground THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Morecambe lifeboat station was told by Helmsman Keith Willacy at 1515 on Saturday June 6, 1981, that a catamaran aground in the bay had been reported to him; her crew had not been accounted...