LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pennies May Not Rain from Heaven But Pound Notes Floated Down Just Outside Filey With a Little Help from a Helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topclif
Pennies may not rain from heaven but pound notes floated down just outside Filey, with a little help from a helicopter from 665 Army Helicopter Squadron from Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Staff at the Topcliffe base had done a 44-mile... - View image in PDF
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Helmsman Tom Freeman from Mablethorpe Heft)
Helmsman Tom Freeman from Mablethorpe Heft). - View image in PDF
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Postscript (From Page 119)
the final fruition of this modern policy.
I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...
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The Life-Boat
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7 feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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Gold Medallion
Gold medallion The photograph below shows a 15-carat gold 'Lifeboat Saturday' medallion of 1895 from Manchester and Salf ord which was awarded to the 'Whalley Range C.C.' as first prize in the cyclists and harriers fancy... - View image in PDF
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Mount Taurus
MARCH 22ND. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW At about 8.45 A.M. information was received that the Greek steamer Mount Taurus, of Syra, was on the Arklow Bank. Another vessel was standing by her. A moderate southerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute...
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About 9 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of April, 1949, local fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. Some reached the shore with difficulty.
Three were still at sea, and the life- boat...
Edenside
Plymouth, Devon. At 3.25 on the morning of the 4th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Edenside in Plymouth Sound was dragging her anchors and had asked for the help of the life-boat. There...