LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services Cont'
The summarised reports on this page concern services for which letters of commendation and thanks from Lt Cmdr Brian Miles, as deputy director/ chief of operations, have been sent to the stations and/or personnel...
Category: Services
People and profit
Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
You might be familiar with the RNLI's mail order catalogue, but did...
Category: Articles
A Happy Collector
A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...
Category: Donations
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Dogged determination North Berwick's D class inflatable was called out during July this year after a Golden Retriever decided to show off the breed's prowess in the water.
Six year old Homer decided to take a dip...
Focus on . . . Salcombe
The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
Category: Articles
Twelve Hours In a Whole Gale
ON August 22nd the Clacton Motor Life-boat was out for over twelve hours in a whole gale with a very heavy sea, and went to the help of two vessels.
The first was a small yacht with two people on board, which had become...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat (2)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that a motor boat needed help outside the breakwater. At 11.10 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out, with the honorary...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...
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Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Ard Crona
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th November, 1961, a man living in Burtonport told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had grounded in Arran roads.
The life-boat W. M. Tilson left her moorings...