LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (8)
APRIL 5TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 8s.
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APRIL 26TH. - GALWAY BAY. A t 5.30 A.M. the local doctor asked that thelife-boat should take a boy to Galway for an immediate operation. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. All the local boats were away fishing. The motor...
Life-Boat Saturday and "Life-Boat Sunday." Recent Demonstrations
WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
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Boat Shows
SHOWS Thanks to the generous free space allocated by the organisers, the RNLI was able, for the second year running, to display a lifeboat at the 1985 London International Boat Show. She was the 33ft Brede class, Safeway, destined for...
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In This Issue
In this issue News Including the naming of Falmouth lifeboat by Her Majesty The Queen and her Golden Jubilee celebrations Letters Feature Moving inland The RNLI's first inland lifeboat station celebrated its first birthday in May - Sam...
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Tank Landing Craft 898
NOVEMBER 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Just after noon the coastguard reported a vessel not under control one and a half miles east of Filey Brig. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. Both coxswains,...
A Tug (2)
JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...
Ay Bee Gee
Yacht holed A YACHT SEEN TO FIRE a red flare, about \\ miles seawards of the Coastguard lookout was reported to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station at 1130 on Wednesday, September 1. It was almost flat calm when, at 1137, the...
Lady Friendship
Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht
First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...