LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Midlands District Conference
as yet, been held in the Mid- lands took place in Birmingham on Friday and Saturday, May 13th and 14th, when no fewer than 217 delegates attended from eighty-four branches.
A visit was paid on the first day to Fort Dunlop,...
Category: Meetings
Atlantic 75
The Atlantic 75 is based on the Atlantic 21, which she is gradually replacing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Life-Boatmen Know Best'
The leading article in Yachting & Boating for 2Oth April, 1967, had this to say: 'We . . . hear complaints that some of the rescued do not wish to be rescued. But like the surgeon, the life-boatman diagnoses and then operates ....<...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
Sunflower
At 7.30A.M.
on the 6th February, during thick weather, with a strong W. breeze blow- ing and a moderate sea, a message was received by telephone stating that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Start Point. The...
H.M.S. Cheerful
Cromer, Norfolk.—Oil the 30th of May, 1953,H.M.S. Cheerful, which was paying an official visit to Cromer, had several guests on board, including the Chairman of the Cromer Urban Dis- trict Council and the life-boat honorary secretary. The...
Remagio
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry
AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles
Lona M
Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them...