LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
Spero and Blanche
Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...
Atlantis Adventure Makes Fast In the Safety of Baltimore Harbour After Being Given Assistance By the Town's Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat. the 60Ft Sailing Vessel Had
Atlantis Adventure makes fast in the safety of Baltimore Harbour after being given assistance by the town's relief Tyne class lifeboat. The 60ft sailing vessel had run into difficulties south of Fastnet Rock in a rough sea with a swell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
My husband and I had a rather unusual experience on 7 August. We were enjoying a really good break, staying at the RNLI’s college in Poole for 3 nights. (Your accommodation is excellent and the food delectable!) On our last morning we walked...
Category: Articles
Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Sir Is This a Record?
Sir, is this a record? We have just completed Teignmouth flag week. Between 1.00 pm on Monday July 9 and 11.00 pmm on Saturday July 14, Terry Trebilcock (seen helping me with the final emptying of the box) and his wife Sue, the licencees of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peeks of Bournemouth Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
A Salmon Fishing Coble
MONTROSE.—-At 5 P.M. on the 8th of January, during a gale from the N.N.W., it was reported that a salmon fishing coble, with four men, was anchored a mile and a-half from Kirkside, and flying signals of distress, being in danger of drifting...
Annie Gray
The Admiral Henry Meynett life- 'boat, at Ballywalter, went off to the dis- tressed ship Annie Gray, and remained alongside her for some hours, until she got out of her perilous position.
A Child's Help
THE Bexhill-on-Sea Branch organized recently a Life-boat Sale. As a result the following letter came from a little girl :— " I have made a very nice little doll's bed and bought a little doll and made clothes for it. The doll...
Category: Articles