LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetland.—During the afternoon of the 24th September the island of Papa Stour informed Sandness post office, on the mainland, that doctor was wanted for a sick man on the island. The weather was too bad at that time to allow an...
Lorry in limbo
2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
Category: Articles
Thomas
NEW BRIGHTON.—Signal rockets indicating that the services of the Life-boatwere required, having been fired by the Light-vessel and Coastguard Station on the night of the 14th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry RicJiardson pnt off in tow of...
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat and a Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.5 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the St. Albans Head coastguard that a motor boat was two miles south- west by west of the Head. There was no sign of...
An Offshore Platform
Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...
Centenaries
Centenary vellums were presented to three life-boat stations in May and June.
At Poole, Dorset, the presentation ceremony took place at the life-boat house, Poole Quay, on 22nd May, the vellum being presented to the branch...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE 34th Annual Meeting of the Com- mittee of this Fund was held on the 17th January, 1901, and was presided over by Mr. Charles G. Turner, C.B.
Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Honorary Secretary, reported that not withstand- ing...
Category: Meetings
Donside
FIVE ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT GROUNDED M.F.V.
Stromness, Orkneys. At 9.25 on the evening of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Kirkwall coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Donside of Aberdeen...