LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Empire's Help.
Every overseas mail since the war began has brought gifts to the Institution from somewhere in the Empire, unsolicited gifts from people on whom the war must be making the same heavy demands as it is making upon us all. Those gifts have come...
Category: Articles
CAV Ltd
Chosen for reliability QUEEN'S AWARD INDUSTRY 1966 1967 The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
LUCAS and CAV...
Category: Advertisement
Yacht Coo
— At 8.35 A.M. on the 12th March a telegram was received from Milford - on - Sea, stating that a small vessel was labour- ing heavily in a dismasted condition, and displaying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Robert Fleming were...
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Leif
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Rescue from a Steamer In Dense Fog
AT 10.8 on the night of the 8th of March, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Campbeltown station, Mr. A. P. MacGrory, that the S.S. Gracehill, of Campbeltown, was ashore on Sanda island in thick fog and needed help....
Category: Services
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
On the night of the 24th of September, 1958, the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat took a sick man off the Morecambe Bay lightvessel in very heavy seas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 131, Coxwain Roland Moore was...
Cecilia
At 3.30 P.M.
information was received that a vessel was flying signals of distress, and the crew of the Life-boat Charles Whiiton were assembled and the boat proceeded to sea in a heavy W.N.W. gale. When two miles S. by E....
(Above Right) Attention to Detail
(above right) Attention to detail - North Foreland had a blue bottom white at Margate, so she has one now.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Search in fog THICK FOG had descended on Scarborough when, on the night of Saturday July 27, 1985, the lifeboat station's honorary secretary received a report that red flares had been sighted some 2'/2 to 3 miles south of the...