LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Motor Fishing Vessel No. 799
PROPELLER LOST Walmer, Kent—During the afternoon of the 19th of January, 1948, a motor fishing vessel was drifting in the Downs, and a passing steamer signalled for help for her. At 3.40 the motor life- boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No....
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LIFE-BOATS AS AMBULANCES Lerwick, Shetlands.—At about 2.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands, telephoned that a woman was seriously ill at Bardister, and must be taken at once to...
Inset: Each 'little ship' was presented with a commemorative plaque on arrival at Dunkirk.
Inset: Each 'little ship' was presented with a commemorative plaque on arrival at Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
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Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
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Every second counts
Two lifeguards raced to reach a kitesurfer as he was dragged under water towards rocks. Somehow they had to slow him down
On the afternoon of Tuesday 7 June, RNLI lifeguards watched a...
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Not What It Seems...
Not what it seems... Marine Engineer e$ alongside the River Bus pontoon at Festival Pier between the meetings to allow visitors to look aboard.. - View image in PDF
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Josephine II (1)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that it would be very danger- ous for local boats to cross the bar at the entrance to the harbour because of the heavy sea...
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
ANOTHER year of " Life-boat Saturday " work has closed, and notwithstanding the great hindrance to advancement in the shape of a General Election, and County Council and School Board Elec- tions, good progress has been made, up-...
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Top: Tubes On
Top: Tubes on. the below-deck area is prepared to receive the console.. - View image in PDF
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