LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
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Feature: Lifeboat Lottery
The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery was the highest earning RNLI lottery ever, raising over £381,000 - the equivalent of two inshore lifeboats, a hovercraft and the training of their crews. Congratulations go to first prize winners Mr and...
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Mary and Surprise
Hastings, Sussex.—About half past six on the night of the 2nd of November, 1950, a message was received that flares had been seen about two and a half miles east of Hastings Harbour.
At 6.45 the life-boat M.T.C. was...
Kyloe
St. Helier, Jersey - At 6 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, the motor cruiser Kyloe was reported overdue on a voyage from Carteret on the French coast. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at...
Parliamentary Questions and Answers
MR. L. W. B. TEELING, M.P. for Brighton, asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the coming closing down of the Royal Naval Air Station at Ford, and of the Royal Air Force Station, Tangmere, ceasing to be operational, he would discuss...
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Two R.A.F. Motor Boats
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland.— 21st February. Two R.A.F. motor boats had been reported making for Berwick. It was thought they would have difficulty in crossing the bar, but they ran for shelter elsewhere.—Rewards, £7 6s....
Bountiful
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Dosinia
DEC. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. Information was received shortly before 2 A.M.
from the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine near the Haisborough Light-vessel.
A light southerly wind was blowing, with...
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Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...