LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lymington September 5 1986:
Lymington, September 5, 1986: Between her delivery to the station in June and her dedication (left) in September, Lymington's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had been out on service no fewer than 14 times. The boat had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
THREE thousand gas-filled balloons were released from Torquay sea front with cards attached to each balloon bearing the name of someone who had paid one shilling to the Torquay branch of the Institution. Three prizes were awarded for the...
Category: Donations
Zeebrugge 476
SEARCH FOR SEAMAN At 2 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard asked 'the honorary secretary if the life-boat would launch to search for a seaman who was missing from the Belgian trawler Zeebrugge 476 which had sunk at 9.20 a.m. two...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th of October, 1950, the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked that the life-boat should go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel to land a man whose wife was danger- ously ill. At 9.50...
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Arbroath, Angus.—At 7.22 on the night of the 17th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two girls were marooned on a rock east of Auchmithie, about four miles north of Arbroath, and at 7.33 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
Category: Meetings
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.29 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had been reported in difficulties in Newport Bay. At 2.3 the life-boat White Star was...
Peeks of Bournemouth
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Category: Advertisement
Clubbing Together
Weymouth Working Mens Club have been raising cash for Weymouth lifeboat station branch for the past three years.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
COLD AND EXHAUSTED MEN GIVEN RUM Youghal, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the coxswain saw a capsized dinghy outside the harbour. At 3.25 the life-boat Herbert John was launched in a fresh south-westerly...