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Willie Parr

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

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,...

Category: Articles

Your Letters

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Donations sewn up I was interested to read the letter in the Summer issue, 'Donations in lieu of reward.' This is a scheme I have operated for some time now, I have been involved with sewing machines most of my life and operated a...

Category: Correspondence

Jim Turreff,

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Jim Turreff, crew member and emergency mechanic at Alderney lifeboat station was recently awarded the City and Guilds Bronze Medal for excellence for the 2440 Marine Craft Competences Part two - the only student in the UK and Ireland to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Stuck truck

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

1 March: Courtown, Co Wexford The inshore crew went to the rescue of the driver of a 25-tonne dump truck that had become submerged at high tide on Ardamine Beach. The crew arrived to find the driver waving from...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Station

Date: May 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 172

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of tho boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Station

Date: May 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 84

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...

Category: Articles

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: August 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 189

MONTROSE.—The morning of the 25th February was comparatively fine, with a moderate breeze blowing from S.S.W., and the fishing-boats went to sea. At about 10 o'clock the wind veered to S.S.E. and commenced to blow very strongly, and a...

Edenside

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Plymouth, Devon. At 3.25 on the morning of the 4th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Edenside in Plymouth Sound was dragging her anchors and had asked for the help of the life-boat. There...

Brett

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...

Sky Rocket

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Comedy dinghy capsize nearly turns to tragedy in Lyme BayAs she watched her father and boyfriend capsizing their Laser dinghy, Sky Rocket, in Lyme Bay on the evening of 27 April 2002, Lisa King was at first amused. But each time it took a...