LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twenty-One West Sussex Businessmen Took Part In a Sponsored Cycle Ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and Back In October In Aid of the RNLI the Only Unusual T
Twenty-one West Sussex businessmen took part in a sponsored cycle ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and back in October, in aid of the R.N.L.I. The only unusual thing was that all were on one cycle, said to be the largest in the world,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barquintine Erik Gjessen
The bar- quentine Erik Ojessen, of Skudescae, whilst bound from Haugesund to Leith in ballast, stranded about two and a half miles south of Newburgh on the 29th October. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing at the time, but the sea j was very...
Julia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
Members of Prestatyn Swimming Club Gather Round John Owen President of Rhyl Branch for the Presentation of a Cheque for £15050 to Go Into the Asa Rnli Intern
Members of Prestatyn swimming club gather round John Owen, president of Rhyl branch, for the presentation of a cheque for £150.50 to go into the ASA RNLI international sponsored swim fund.
photograph by courtesy of Ian... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Red star shells had been seen some miles distant, which it was thought might have come from an aeroplane in distress, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 3s..
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MAY 22ND. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea off Trevose Head, but actually it had only flown low in thick weather.- Rewards, £3 19s..
Lilian
Hoylake, Cheshire. — Early in the morning of the 18th of March, 1952, the motor fishing boat Lilian, with the life-boat coxswain and another man on board, put to sea. She did not return and at five o'clock the Formby coastguard...
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons faka Heartbeat's Sgt Oscar Blaketon and PC Alt Ventress) officially launch the lifeboat in the traditional style with a bottle of bubbly.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ladies' Club's Gifts.
Since 1941 the Ladies' Unity Club, of Boston Manor, Baling, has presented the line-throwing pistol, searchlight and compass for the Aldeburgh No. 2 lifeboat, and the line-throwing pijtols for the life-boats at Sunderland and Newquay,...
Category: Articles
Caroline
EASTBOUBNE.—On the 3rd August, while a gale was blowing from S., accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, the schooner Caroline, of London, bound from Qoole for Portland with a cargo of coal, parted her cable and drifted towards the shore,...