LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEPTEMBER 15TH. - WESTON - SUPER MARE, SOMERSET. During the evening a man on Kilve Reach in Bridgwater Bay saw signals fired from a motor cruiser. He told the police who reported to the coastguard. The information reached the life-boat...
The French Life-Boat Society
The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.
LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages publishes in its second half-yearly Report for 1929 a preliminary survey of the activities and progress during that...
Category: Articles
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
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LAUNCHERS' ORDEAL Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.32 in the evening of February 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Bexhill police had reported flares about five miles south of Bexhill. An easterly breeze was blowing with a...
Sweet William Continued from Page 95
fectly and they departed full of smiles, I suspect of relief, and only charged a nominal fee.
Hatherleigh Market was close by so I asked the market RSPCA inspector to check William; he was reported in excellent...
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Community News: South/Midlands/East
Tower
GRENFELL FAMILIES VISIT STATION
The RNLI has been working alongside charity Cornwall Hugs Grenfell to help survivors, firefighters and those who’ve lost loved ones to create new memories and...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
AUTUMN 2017 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr M Ferguson from Buckinghamshire who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Ms V Storey, South...
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A Helicopter (1)
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....