LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.
My...
Category: Correspondence
RAC HOMECARE
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Category: Advertisement
Review
The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
Category: Articles
Ward
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was showing two red lights about four miles north-north-east of Margate Pier.
At 4.30 he reported that she was...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore,...
Matilda
JUNE 11TH. - DOVER, KENT. At 4.25 P.M. a message was received from the duty staff officer at Dover that a boat was drifting four miles off the Port War Signal Station, and might have people on board. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
An American Thunderjet Fighter (2)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Spurn Head (From page 95)
a wooden half-lifeboat plaque made from the wreckage of the Peterhead lifeboat Alexander Tulloch which was wrecked in 1914 (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer, 1973), is a well-known maker of matchstick models. For example, using 1,500 used matchsticks,...
Category: Articles
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25th October. The Tongue light-vessel reported having seen flares to the S.W., but a search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £1618s. dd..