LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnlb Shoreline Has Been on Station at Arbroath
RNLB Shoreline has been on station at Arbroath for just over three years, having previously served at Blyth. This 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was paid for from funds raised by Shoreline members in 1977/78 and, since her arrival at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...
Category: Articles
When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School
When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, visited Tenby lifeboat station they left behind a tee shirt, and Jack Thomas, the branch chairman, duly paid this unusual £83.43 cheque into the bank. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Louise
About 8 o'clock on the evening of the 16th May a boat was noticed on the north side of Aberdovey bar, riding in a most dangerous position with a moderate gale blowing from N.W. As the boat was in immediate danger the Life - boat William...
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Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...
Terrier
Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
Category: Services
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.24 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a bather had been cut off by the tide at Leigh-on-Sea and had boarded a boat anchored there. At 10.42 the life-boat,...
Inveresk
ABERSOCH.—During the gale of the 7th October, the barque Inveresk, of and for Liverpool from Nova Scotia, was seen running under bare poles direct for the east end of St. Patrick's Causeway. The Life-boat Mabel Louisa proceeded to her...
Commander Nasmith
SEPT. 7TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 10 P.M. the life-boat station was informed by the coastguard that the steam trawler Commander Nasmith was ashore on the north side of Stroma. A later message said that the vessel was...