LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
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Squire, of Yarmouth
On the 10th March, 1867, the schooner Squire, of Yar- mouth, was observed making for the shore in a disabled state, a heavy gale blowing from E.N.E. at the time. -The North Briton life-boat was soon launched, and gal- lantly pulled through a...
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Galway Bay. On the evening of the 21st of June, 1960, the island medical officer asked if the life-boat would take a sick child to Rossaveal on the main- land, where an ambulance was waiting to drive the child to hospital. As there was no...
Hermione
Salcombe, Devon. At 8.45 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat had broken down and was drifting towards Prawle Point. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out...
Lady Francis
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
While the life-boat Grace Darling was escorting the royal barge during the visit of H.M. the Queen and H.R.H.
the Duke of Edinburgh to Holy Island on the 29th of June,...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.46 p.m. on 6th July, 1967, while the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was on exercise after engine overhaul, it was reported that a boy was stranded on Porthkerry beach at the Bull Nose. The tide was flooding...
Gratefully Remembered
On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...
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Royal Visit for Penlee Crew
HRH Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cornwall, met members of the crew of the Penlee lifeboat during her official visit to Newlyn, where she officially opened the town's new £lm fish market.
The Princess visited the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Father Neptune at Herne Bay
A fortnight's celebrations of the centenary of Herne Bay last August concluded with life-boat day. Father Neptune, impersonated by Captain J. Irvine H. Friend, M.C., J.P., the chairman of the Margate branch, arriving in the Margate motor... - View image in PDF
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A Canoe (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—9th July, 1939.
A canoe had capsized with two people on board, but the police rescued them from the shore with lines.—Rewards, £5 13*..