LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Yachts
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1958, the New Brighton stageman learnt from the dredger Otterspool when she entered harbour that a small yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. The motor...
Mischief, of Carnarvon
On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the...
Canoes (1)
CANOES CAPSIZED Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.
on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that two canoes had capsized off the East Beach. There was a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was...
Emery
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.29 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht was burning a red flare three miles to the east-south-east, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 5.40...
Norma, of Bremen
At midnight on the 30th December the same life-boat put off again, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, in reply to signals of distress from the light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands.
While proceeding to the southward at the back of...
Above Loading the Rnli's Mercedes
Above. Loading the RNLI's Mercedes road train'. Driver George Dadson demonstrates how an Atlantic 21 can be loaded single-handed with the hydraulic crane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Saint Ronan
Port Erin, Isle of Man. At six o'clock on the morning of the 9th of July, 1958, a member of the branch committee telephoned the honorary secretary to say he had been woken by the noise of a ship's siren sounding several short blasts...
Travelscope
4 days Departing November & December 2006 On board MS Britannia Cruise the romantic Rhine when its famous Christmas Markets are in full swing and its villages and towns are jingling with festivity. Enjoy the terrific shopping...
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Royal Ceremony at Broughty Ferry
H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new life-boat at a ceremony held at Broughty Ferry on Monday, May 15th, 1961. In her speech Princess Marina said:— "I can assure you that I am especially...
Category: Inaugurations