LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue After Two Tankers Collide
AT 10.20 on the night of the 25th of October, 1960, two coastal tankers collided near the entrance to the dock at Sharpness on the Rivern Severn.
One was the Arkendale, which was loaded with 206 tons of diesel oil. The...
Category: Services
The Spanish Big Samaritano
On the 13th February, the Spanish big Samaritano ran ashore on the Wedge Sand, off Margate. The two Mar- gate life-boats having failed to reach the wreck, and become disabled, intelligence of the disaster was conveyed to Ramsgate, together...
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Category: Advertisement
The Great Services Which Were Rendered By the Life-Boats to the Allied Cause During the War Have Been Referred to In Previous Numbers of The Life-Boat
'T'HE great services which were rendered by the Life-boats to the Allied cause during the War have been referred to in precious numbers of THE LIFE-BOAT. The full list of the services in the last year of the War, during which rewards...
Category: Services
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1976 January and February 1977
Angle, Dyfed December 6.
Anstruther, Fife February 20.
Appledore, North Devon December 2, January 12, February 17, 18 and 21.
Baltimore, Co. Cork January 10.
Barry Dock,...
Category: Services
They Did It
They did it. They, (I to r) Steve Huntley, Mike Ogwo, Paul Savage, Tony Jeffery, Gary Brooks, Peter Cowup and Mick Newman, ran in relays the 80 miles between Margate lifeboat station and Islington fire station. The time taken by these seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat Belonging to Pet
During tine cold weather on the 19th April the | Coxswain, John Swan, observed a man in a small boat trying to reach a j smack which was outside the harbour.
After several attempts one of the oars broke and the boat began...