LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferry Saint Malo (1)
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
Fiveie
Dover, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, a local boatman reported that a motor boat was in difficulties off St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.20 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings with the second...
Eyemouth: REPRESENTING THE RNLI
Three members of Eyemouth Lifeboat Station represented the RNLI at the Annual National Service for Seafarers held at the end of 2015 at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Each year, the RNLI nominates a different regional division to attend and...
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A Dinghy
JULY 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a rubber boat had been seen one and a half miles off St. Mildred’s Bay, Westgate. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 3...
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BOYS STRANDED At7p.m.on27thAugust,i965,thepolice reported a boy was stranded on Sully Island. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 7.15 and took a small boat in tow. There was a light westerly breeze, a smooth sea and it was...
Blackbrae
At 3.40 A.M. on the 25th February the Coastguard watchman reported that he had seen signals of distress in the direction of the Newcombe Bank. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox was promptly summoned and the Life-boat proceeded...
Travelscope (1)
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The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
The Fund Raisers
Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...
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Black Jake
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 10.45 P-m- on 5th July, 1967, a message was received that a small motor boat was in difficulties one mile west of the harbour. The lifeboat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10)slipped her moorings at n o'clock in a...