LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (58)
JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of an...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael F. Hardy, of East- bourne.
He was second-coxswain from 1919 to 1924, and since then he has been coxswain, so that he has now been an officer of the life-boat for nearly...
Category: Articles
St. Albans
St. Albans made a very special effort to make Century Life-boat Day, which was held on 19th July, an outstanding success. A Life-boat was stationed in the Market Square during the forenoon, and it toured the outer areas of the city during...
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A Yacht (4)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.50 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a yacht was aground on East Barrow sands. She was not showing any distress signals but in view of the weather conditions the lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...
2. Henry Thomas 'Shrimp' Davies, Coxswain 1947-76, Blogg's nephew
2. Henry Thomas 'Shrimp' Davies, Coxswain 1947-76, Blogg's nephew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cuprous
LIFE-BOAT TAKES OVER TOW OF YACHT Holy Island, Northumberland. At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Ettrick that...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 23rd March, 1969, it was learnt that a boy was stranded on a rock off shore at Broadsea, Fraserburgh.
The life-boat Duchess of Kent was launched at 3.40. It was high water. The...
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles
Marnhull
At 6 A.M. on the 10th February signals of distress were observed on the North end of the Barnard Sand. The wind at the time was blowing a strong breeze from the S,W. and the sea was rough. The No. 2 Life-boat, St. Michael's, Paddington,...
The S.S. Lona
Margate, Kent.—At 11.2 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling with flags that she re- quired a boat. At 11.10 the life-boat Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1,...