LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
June Rose.
PROPELLER FOULED Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—-At 9.40 in the evening of the llth of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a seine-net fishing boat had fouled her propeller and was signalling for help half a mile off Cruden Bay. The...
Ocean Pride
VIGILANT CREW IN FAST RESCUE SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on the 10th April, 1972; Coxswain R. W. Wood and Second Coxswain W. V. Burrell of the Aldeburgh life-boat became concerned for the safety of three fellow longshore fishermen who had not yet...
Summer of '37
Recently I came across some old photographs which I am sending to you hoping they will be of interest. In 1937 we were spending a family holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, and one day during our first week we found ourselves, with other holiday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Three stranded men HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1050 on Tuesday August 14, 1979, that three men were stranded on rocks at Southdown Cliff, two miles south of Berry Head, and that it looked as...
Gwendoline
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their...
Damia B
Blyth, Northumberland.— At 4.51 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties to the south of the entrance to Blyth Har- bour. She had made no distress signal, but as it...
A Naval Patrol Vessel
JULY 28TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A naval patrol vessel had sent out an S.O.S. as her steering column had broken, but she was able to repair it.- Rewards, £8 2s..
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OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
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South/Midlands/East Community News
Cowes
COWES CUTS ITS PLASTIC
As well as saving lives at sea, Cowes lifeboat crew are playing their part in saving the planet – by cutting down on plastic. Small changes can make a big difference and, in...
Category: Articles