LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Launchers Man the 'Woods' and Watch As the Retaining Pin Is Knocked Out
Launchers man the 'woods' and watch as the retaining pin is knocked out . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ronnie Charms the Crowds
Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.
It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles E. Fielding
MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Henry Middleton
AMERICAN STEAMER AGROUND Falmouth, Cornwall. — Shortly after 1.0 in the morning of February 1st, 1947, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer in the harbour was showing signals of distress.
A south-east...
Golden Rule
BY RADIO TELEPHONE Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 9 p.m.
on 29th April, 1964, a local man reported that he had heard a message on his radio telephone that the motor fishing vessel Golden Rule, of Stromness, needed...
Isabella
LYTHAM, LANCASHIEE.—The Life-boat Charles Biggs, was launched at 7.15 A.M.
on the 31st of May, to the assistance of the schooner Isabella, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth for Preston with a cargo of china clay, which had...
A Motor Boat
Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze...
Safety Week
DURING the summer and autumn a number of " Safety Weeks " have been held, organized by the National Safety Week Council and the National Safety First Association. In all districts with life-boat stations where a " week "...
Category: Articles
Heather
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...