LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Typhoon
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 7.30 p.m.
on 2nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a sloop was in difficulties about one mile east of Puffin Island. In the same area a cabin cruiser was also apparently in trouble. The life-boat Field...
Royal Humane Society Testimonial
The Royal Humane Society has awarded a testimonial on parchment to Mr.
William Dryden, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, for his rescue on 5th May, 1965, of a three year old girl who had fallen into the lower...
Category: Awards
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 5 March 1996 show that during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 7,312 times (an average of more than 20 launches a day) 1,632 lives were saved (an average of more than 4 a day) Some 3...
Category: Articles
Southwold:
Southwold: The only way to christen an Atlantic 21 inflatable lifeboat is to take the cork out of the bottle. Senior Helmsman Roger Trigg performs the task after, on a wet Wednesday August 7, 1985, the station's new lifeboat was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Torbay's Arun class lifeboat Edward Bridges had to approach within inches of a cliff on 9 December 1988 to rescue a climber, who had fallen some 20ft into the sea at Berry Head.
The accident happened at a climb known as...
Small Boat Big Record
Small boat, big record A weekend in August saw an event with a difference - a 24-hour sponsored sail organised by the Conisbrough and Hemsworth model boat clubs to see how far a model boat could travel in the time.
A new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
E P Barrus Limited
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Category: Advertisement
Queen Victoria, of Lyne
On the night of the I 24th January the ketch Queen Victoria, of I Lynn, was wrecked near the entrance of Sunderland harbour, during a strong ! breeze at N.W. That vessel had come to an anchor while on a voyage from Lynn...
A Pilot Wherry
WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...