LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.
The woman had been unsuccessfully...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off St. Leonards about a quarter of a mile from the shore. At 5.18 the life-boat M.T.C....
St.Paul
St Paul is the oldest lifeboat in the collection, being built in 1897 and serving as a lifeboat until 1934. The wide beam is typical of the Norfolk and Suffolk type of lifeboat of the era.
A service by StPaul to a Rye... - View image in PDF
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Fishing Cobles (1)
The coxswain received a telephone message about 10 A.M. on the llth January, stating that three fishing cobles were in danger off Alnmouth and unable to make any headway against the prevail- ing W.S.W. gale and ebb tide. The Life-boat...
Mary and Surprise
Hastings, Sussex.—About half past six on the night of the 2nd of November, 1950, a message was received that flares had been seen about two and a half miles east of Hastings Harbour.
At 6.45 the life-boat M.T.C. was...
Chenonceaux
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 2.55 a.m. on 8th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the French trawler Chenonceaux had gone aground on the rocks at Burial Isle, Birr Point, Co. Down.
The life-boat...
A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy
JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.
A light N.E...
Joika
South-East England Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.7 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Norwegian vessel jfoika of Oslo had been in collision 13 miles east-south-east of Cromer and had been badly damaged. The...
Shoreline
Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.
West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...
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