LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Start of Last Year's Sheffield Marathon
The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Noordam
OCT. 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.20 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Noordam, of Rotterdam, lying off Deal, had signalled for a boat to take a man ashore for an immediate operation. A strong E. by S. wind was blowing with a...
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NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon information was received from the principal light-keeper of the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse, that one of the keepers had cut an artery in his arm and ought to be brought ashore...
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JUNE 5TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Returning from an exercise at 5.30 in the afternoon, the crew of the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards were told by the police that the coastguard had asked if they would...
Belgian Life-Boats Built In England
THREE motor life-boats have been built at Cowes, under the supervision of the Institution, for the Belgian Life-boat Service, which is maintained by the Ministry of Communications. All thre.e are Watson cabin boats, 46 feet 9 inches long, ...
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The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at 7.15 A.M. on the 3rd June, in a moderate S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea, and landed the body of a man who had died on board the Lucifer lightship, which is stationed about eight miles N.E. of...
A Washington Aircraft
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
This Photograph Which Was Sent In By Mrs. Christina Dalwood, of Wareham, Dorset, Shows Her Small Daughter Samantha Kitted Out for Heavy Weather
This photograph, which was sent in by Mrs. Christina Dalwood, of Wareham, Dorset, shows her small daughter Samantha kitted out for heavy weather. Just to the left in the background is the Swanage lifeboat station. But if Samantha thinks that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet, of St. Catherines, Ontario, had gone ashore off Llanddwyn Island, but nine- teen of her crew of twenty were rescued from the shore by the Holyhead Company of the...
Hampshire Rose Appeal
HAMPSHIRE ROSE APPEAL PHILATELIC ENVELOPE A SPECIAL APPEAL is to be made from May, 1973, to September, 1974, for £50,000 towards the cost of a Rother class life-boat (above). It will be called the Hampshire Rose Appeal and the Chairman...
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