LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Contents 3 Prototypes of a new Fast Slipway Lifeboat 4 7r l|lfT"|p Y T /TT Princess Margaret names Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38), Margate . 5 Nlimber 471 Lifeboat Services 6 Lifeboat stations of the Isle of Man, by Joan...
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She's A Lady
Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk- At 6 p.m. on 30th June, 1968, the honorary secretary of the Cromer lifeboat station was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Sheringham beach. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 6.12....
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In the early afternoon of 18 October 2001, 10 year old Arron McLauchlan was understandably engrossed watching seals on the rocks near Buchaness lighthouse, 1.5km south of Peterhead. But when he realised that the incoming tide had cut him off...
Outrageous Grace
Outrageous Grace
Taking the long way home
By John Otterbacher
Review by
Michael Masters
Outrageous Grace tells the true story of the author’s struggle against death – and...
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Saturnus
JANUARY 3lST. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the Ramsey life-boat station reported that a vessel with a barrage balloon attached was drifting towards Maughold Head, but that owing to the state of the tide the Ramsey life-boat could not...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 3rd April a doctor asked for the services of the motor life-boat William Evans to take a patient to the mainland for an immediate operation.
A moderate east breeze was blowing,...
Mr. H. A. Bryden
Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution...
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A Christmas Gift
JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
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JANUARY 30TH. - FLAMBOROUGH; YORKSHIRE. At about 12.45 P.M. the coastguard asked that the life-boat should be launched to search the steamship channel between Flamborough Head and Filey Brigg, as firing or explosions had been heard. An E.S.E...
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
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