LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 11.44 a.m. on 24th March, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted off Bembridge Ledge. The life-boat Jack Shayler and the Lees was launched at 11.56. There was a fresh...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Hutnber, Yorkshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 29th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had requested assistance in landing a sick man. The lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.50...
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Pitwines (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
Ann Jeavons
Ann Jeavons - former Moelfre fundraising guild and lifeboat station committee member.
Category: Obituaries
Contents
The LifeboatSpring 1990 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 511 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
Category: Contents
Capt. R. L. Hamer, D.S.O., R.N.
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
A Rubber Float
Clovelly, Devon.—5th August. A man on a rubber float had been reported to be drifting out to sea, but he managed to get ashore unaided.—Rewards, £7 Is. 6d..
A Rubber Dinghy
MAY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Two boys in a rubber dinghy were missing, but they were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch. - Rewards, £17 8s..
An Aeroplane (155)
OCTOBER 9TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported in the sea eighteen miles S.E. of Douglas, which would make her 39 miles from Moelfre, but it was found that the lifeboat was not needed and she...