LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...
Nil Desperandum
At 5.34 p.m. on 29th August, 1966, it was reported that a fishing boat, one mile off shore, had burned an orange smoke signal. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 5.50 and proceeded in an east north easterly breeze and a...
A Pontoon
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
The naval authorities had asked the life-boat to go out to look for a partly submerged waterlogged pontoon, which a shore-boat had found earlier in the day, but had been unable to tow...
Willie Parr
WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.
*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...
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New Equipment—From the Boat Show
FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
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North of England and Isle of Man Community News
Morecombe
Fantastic 5p fundraising
When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
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"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
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The S.S. Terlings
SEAHAM, Co. DURHAM.—At 6.30 A.M.
on the 6th May the s.s. Terlings, of London, bound from Bochester for Seaham, in ballast, in approaching the harbour during a fog went too far to the southward, struck the rocks and filled....
Elizabeth, of Blyth
As the Caister life-boat was returning to the shore, the brig Elizabeth, of BIyth, was seen on the south part of the Cross Sand with a signal of distress flying. Approach- ing her, they saw the ship's boat in the midst of the breakers on...
A Speed Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 11.30 on the morning of the 30th of March, 1958, the coxswain was told that a speedboat had broken down. Half-an- hour later he saw the boat a mile and a half south-east of the life-boat slipway.
At...