LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
Bien
SIXTEEN SCOUTS RESCUED Exmouth, Devon. At 7.35 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that Niton radio station had received a message from the motor fishing vessel Bien that she had engine trouble and was steering badly ten...
The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1894
His GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, E.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, KG.
Seconded by The Eight Hon.
The EARL SPENCER, E.G., First Lord of the...
Category: Meetings
Sea Rescue
• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken...
Category: Articles
The Wireless Transmitting Station Radio Scotland
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 7 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, a newspaper office telephoned the honorary secretary to ask if the Dunbar life-boat Margaret had been launched to the wireless transmitting station Radio Scotland, as they had been...
Walter Cox
No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Premuda (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
An Aeroplane and a Naval Drifter
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...
Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...