LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pollyann
Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force winds A service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
Jubilee Review (Continuedfrom Page 55)
(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (2)
NEWBIGQIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 12th May towards the middle of the day the N.N.E. wind freshened and the sea became dangerously rough.
Several of the fishing cobles were at sea, and as four were known to be some miles...
TOWN & COUNTRY
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Category: Advertisement
Fundraising
Best foot forward Hundreds of schools and businesses supported the RNLI's annual Save Our Soles day on Friday 27 January 2006.
From Sennen Cove to Shetland, from Larne to Lowestoft and from Beaumaris to Ballyglass,...
Category: Articles
Bravery at Torbay. Two Men Received Awards
A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...
Category: Services
Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman
Eight years worth of beard was shaved off Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman in front of a large crowd at the Country House Hotel in Ellacombe, Torquay, by local hairdresser Steve Siampourou. The reason was that £231 had been offered for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.
Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...
John
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
Carmela
Plymouth, Devon.—On the night of the 18th July flares were reported from the eastern end of the breakwater. A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck put off at 11.50...