LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helios
JUNE 26TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 3.25 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore on Swadman Reef. The weather was fine, with a light S.E. wind, and the sea was smooth. The motor...
British Fisheries Report, 1851
THE Report of the Commissioners for British Fisheries for the year 1851, just printed, confirms the statement made in the April Number of this Journal as to the great value of these fisheries to the country, not only in a commercial point of...
Category: Articles
Herne Bay Branch's 1983
The Viking conquerors who, invading the Kentish coast last July with their twin-hulled Nor-dick, defeated 42 other rafts in Herne Bay branch's 1983 raft race by being voted best raft and crew and by collecting the most in sponsorship,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature Better Beaches, Safer Seas
The RNLI's Beach Rescue pilot scheme has been running all summer on selected beaches in the south west of England. As the time approaches when a full evaluation of the pilot will be made, Jane Smythson visited one of the pilot projects...
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Contents
Notes of the Quarter, by the editor 147 IlLiJ Beaufort Wind Scale 148 Lifeboat Services 149 XLIV Annual Awards 1975 153 456 A Weekend in September 154 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 156 Opening of new Headquarters at...
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Central Appeals Committee
THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT' continues to show excellent support for the various Central Appeals Committee's projects.
The Civic Heads Appeal has so far resulted in over 120 local authorities in England and Wales...
Category: Committee
Blanche
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 15th July the fleet of cobles belonging to Whitby were out fishing in a heavy ground swell. One of the cobles, with three men in her hanging on to their nets, was suddenly swamped by a heavy sea and sunk...
A Punt and Mohawk
Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.
The coastguard telephoned the life-...
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
Rockets had been reported north of Pabby Island, but when the life-boat was nearing the position given, she intercepted signals saying that an aeroplane crash was suspected and that...