LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — At 2.15 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel, two miles east of Orfordness, and going north, was flying a signal that an acci- dent had occurred and a doctor was required....
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
Category: Articles
Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
Category: Articles
Major Ernest Cooper
BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...
Category: Obituaries
Index to Advertisers
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Rescue In Portland Race
THE Chairman of the R.N.L.I. has sent a letter of thanks to Coxswain Alfred Pavey and the crew of the Weymouth life-boat for their part in rescuing two people from a catamaran in the Portland race on the night of 23rd/24th January...
Category: Services
Maraat V
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...
Lil
At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received from the lightkeeper on the East Pier that two yachts were adrift.
A gale was blowing from the west and the sea was rough. The motor life- boat...
Two Kayaks
Canoeists rescued in unseasonal Force 9 gale The two kayaks which got into trouble off Achill Island in the early afternoon of 20 May 2002 were perhaps unlucky to experience such unseasonal weather. With visibility down to one mile, in rough...