LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Old Battleship Foudroyant
BLACKPOOL.—The old battleship Fou,- droyant, at one time Lord Nelson's flagship, which had been towed round the coast for the purpose of exhibition, while at anchor off Blackpool on the 16th June was overtaken by a sudden gale. At about...
Andola
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat Charlotte was launched at 8.15 P.M.
on the 30th January in a heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E.
and the weather bitterly cold, a large vessel having...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE national sponsored walk, 1971, raised £33,538 new money for the R.N.L.I. Among the completed walks this year was one by the Crayford branch held in the grounds of Bexleyheath School, where the sum of £590 was raised by children...
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Helicopters
In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...
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Nyon
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message that the motor vessel Nyon of Basle was ashore three and a half miles north- west of St. Abbs Head. At 8.15 the life-boat W. Ross...
Award to Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
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Delightful
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
The Naval Trawler Stella Sirus
JANUARY 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 4.30 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the coastguard station and needed a tug. The coxswain assembled the life-boat crew and stood...
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Salty sea-dogs John, Jeremy and Julian Brown, Trevor Grills, John Lethbridge, Billy Hawkins, Peter Rowe, John McDonnell and Jon Cleave form the current...
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Proud of our crowd
Lifesaving and volunteering were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican in London this May. Chairman Admiral the Lord Boyce, in his morning address, also praised the work of the...
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