LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Human chain THE POLICE informed the honorary secretary of Rye Harbour ILB station at 1458 on Sunday, July 4, that three children had been trapped by the tide off the central car park, Camber.
There was a gentle...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund was held on the 9th ult., and was presided over by Mr. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords. The Report, which was read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secre- tary,...
Category: Meetings
Past and Present
5O years ago From the pages of the LIFEBOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 7 of March 1942 30 MONTHS OF WAR In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4630 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last...
Category: Articles
Mitchala
Selsey, Sussex. At 11.51 on the morn- ing of the 26th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that it had been reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties one mile off the Marine Hotel. A fresh south- westerly...
Belpariel
FEBRUARY 3RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 1.41 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Norwegian steamer Belpariel, of Oslo, was in need ofhelp. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Visibility...
Fit and Strong
One need only look at the cork-clad oarsmen of over 100 years ago or the 'lady launchers'of the 1950s to see just how much has changed over the decades in saving lives at sea. Today's crews and lifeguards have previously undreamt...
Category: Articles
Centenaries
In October, 1967, the Stromness life-boat station celebrated its centenary.
The Duke of Atholl, Convener of the Scottish Life-boat Council, presented a vellum on behalf of the Council to the Stromness ladies' life-boat...
Category: Articles
Troop
Signals of distress having been shown by the ship Troop, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow for San Francisco with steel rails, the Fishguard No. 2 Life-boat, the Appin, put off at 8 A.M., on the 7th November, during a strong breeze from the...
The Life-Boat Service Cricket Team at Orpington
(See "A Life-boat Diary"). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Andri
Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January the steam trawler Andri, of Eskifjordur, Iceland, carrying a crew of twenty-five, and bound with fish for Grimsby, ran ashore at Kelder Steel, Kettleness. A moderate S.E....