LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SKIN DIVER RESCUED Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 5.30 p.m. on 26th September, 1965, the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a skin diver was in difficulties a quarter of a mile south of the station. The life-boat crew were asked to stand...
A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved in raging gale Windsurfer Peter Waters was enjoying a great day in the surf at Porthcawl on 26 January 2002 when a sudden wind knocked him through his sail and into the water. 'I was about half a mile out to sea,' he...
Remagio
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
An Aeroplane (2)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Changing Times
Debut of the Mersey fast carriage boatThe RNLl's latest class of lifeboat was named the Mersey when the new, fast carriage-launched lifeboat was unveiled at a special press launch at Hastings lifeboat station on 14...
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Tenby September 29 1986:
Tenby, September 29, 1986: Summer was officially over, yet on this day Tenby was bustling with visitors, and overcast skies cleared miraculously by afternoon allowing the sun to shine warmly on a town celebrating a very special event. It was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Laura
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.32 on the morning of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a woman living in Ballywater that a boat was said to have disappeared near Buckie Pots off Burial Island...
Redshank
JUNE 21ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.35 P . M . a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
Nottingham Lifeboat Appeal
NEALES OF NOTTINGHAM in conjunction with the RNLI Nottingham and District branch and Nottingham Building Society arranged a celebration balloon flight on June 3, 1983, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the Montgolfier...
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