LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 21st August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were cut off by the tide at East Cliff. The life-boat Faithful Forester, with a dinghy in tow, slipped her moorings at 6.47. It was...
An American Air Ambulance
On July zyth. an American air ambulance struck the cliffs of the Mull of Galloway and crashed on the shore. She was going to America, by way of Prestwick, and she had wounded soldiers from Normandy and nurses on board.
The...
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Dear Reader
Each quarter we aim to bring you something that will stir and inform and, if I say so myself, this Autumn issue is something rather special.
We are reminded of the best and the worst of the RNLI’s 185-year history by the...
Category: Articles
Lydia
CAMPBELTOWN.—On the 1st February the wind, which had been blowing strongly all day from W., increased to a strong gale towards the evening, at times blowing with hurricane force. At about 9 P.M. the coxswain of the Life-boat reported that a...
Fishing Cobles (4)
On the 28th April the Life-boat again went to the assistance of endanger* d fishing-cobles, and remained by the boats until they safely crossed the bar and entered the harbour..
Services In Brief
The following is a complete list of services or attempted services by inshore rescue boats during the months of April, May and June, 1964: Date 1964 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 15 April 20 April 24 April 27 April 30 May i May 2 May 4 May...
Category: Services
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
Gwydyr Castle
On the night of the 20th March the harbour tug and the Life-boat Bradford were again called out to the assistance of the barque Gwydyr Castle, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the north end of the Goodwin Sands while bound from Port Pirie...
Galilean
CASUALTY FOUND 20FT FROM ROCKY LKK SHORK Crew rescued from fishing vessel in Force 11 winds and total darkness Coxswain/Mechanic Thomas Ralston of Mallaig has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for rescuing two men and their...