LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
HELICOPTER PICKS THREE MEN OUT OF SEA Margate, Kent. At 2.14 on the afternoon of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-west of Kingsgate coastguard look-out...
Ireland's Influence
IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not...
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A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—Thirty two fishing-cobles proceeded to their fishing ground about 18 or 20 miles distant at 3.30 on the morning of the 14th. January. A strong wind sprung up from the S.E. at about 7 o'clock, and by 9...
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Salcombe, Devon - At 8.32 p.m. on 20th April, 1967, news was received that a boy was missing from a youth hostel at Oversteps and was presumed to have fallen over the cliffs at Lambrey Point.
The life-boat Baltic Exchange,...
Scarf-Helmets for Life-Boatmen
MRS. EDITH MANBY, of Codsall, Staffordshire, completed, on New Year's Day 1936, a work which she began in April, 1935, of knitting woollen scarf-helmets for the life-boat crews round our coasts. Mrs. Manby had the help of 491 knitters...
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Ambler
Lost rudder A COBLE NEEDING HELP, with three men on board, was reported to the deputy launching authority of Seaham lifeboat station by Tees Coastguard at 0955 on Sunday November 26, 1978.
The message had been relayed from...
Left: Stormy Stan Takes Charge of a Royal Navy Submarine
Left: Stormy Stan takes charge of a Royal Navy submarine, while . . .. - View image in PDF
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Alderney's Second Coxswain Martin Harwood Awarded the Bronze Medal
Alderney's Second Coxswain Martin Harwood Awarded The Bronze Medal. - View image in PDF
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Lerwick's Present Lifeboat Is the Fast Afloat 52Ft Arun Soldian
Lerwick's present lifeboat is the fast afloat 52ft Arun Soldian.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs