LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....
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Category: Advertisement
An Aeroplane (21)
SEPT. 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in thechannel between Hastings and Le Treport.
No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the...
A Steamer (10)
DEC. 2ND. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer was thought to be in distress fifteen to twenty miles from Bridlington, but the life-boat found that a derelict, with a cargo of oil, had been sunk by the Admiralty. and the oil...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...
Category: Donations
People and Places
Record draw The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Vessel
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
Sir John Snell and Lizbeth M
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Your Letters
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence
Cover Picture
A night launch of Hoylake's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Mary Gabriel. Hoylake is one of the RNLI's 23 stations where a lifeboat over ten metres in length is launched by tractor and carriage. The tractor in this picture is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs