LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Torpedoed In a Heavy Gale
THE following letter speaks for itself:— Birmingham, December 31st, 1919.
DEAR SIRS, I have great pleasure in enclosing here- with £3 13$. for the funds of the Life-boat Institution, as a token of gratitude for the...
Category: Correspondence
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BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...
Jolly Good Show...
The younger generation of RNLI members were also excited to meet 'Stormy Stan' - the colourful character from their own Storm Force News magazine - who roamed the aisles shaking hands with them.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Radio Telephony In Life-Boats
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 - 65,396 to November 30th, 1937 Radio Telephony in Life-boats.
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Category: Articles
Bertha
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th February, it having been reported that a vessel was in a very dangerous position at Morte, the Broadwater Life-boat was launched and proceeded to the place, a dense fog prevailing at the time. On arriving at the spot,...
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
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Category: Advertisement
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Galway Bay, County Galway.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1957, the local doctor reported that a woman had been attacked by a cow and had been seriously injured.
He asked if the life-boat would...
Thracian
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1955, several men on the beach saw red flares in the direction of North Scroby Sand. Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was rough, there...