LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Russian S.S. Smolensk
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
Two Lighters
DECEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - SOUTHENDON - SEA, ESSEX. At eight at night information was received from the king’s harbour master at Sheerness that two lighters had parted from their tug and were adrift, with two men on board. A moderate northeast...
An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...
A Dakota Air Ambulance
JULY 27TH - 28TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed on the foreshore at Cairngarrock Bay. The weather was fine, with a slight north-north-west breeze and a...
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
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July (1)
JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
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Health &. Home Shopping
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Life-Boat Broadcasts During the War
FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
Category: Articles
Journey Up the Thames of the Teesmouth Motor Life-Boat
ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
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Scrivens
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf' says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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