LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
August, September and October 1996 Aberdeen, Grampian Arun: Aug 9, Sep 12, and Oct 23 D class: Oct 19 and 22 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: Aug 2 (twice), 4 (five times), 10, 13, 21, Sep 11, 23, Oct 4, 5 (twice), and 31 Abersoch,...
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People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Good Times in the London marathon Tony Williamson, the chairman of Littlehampton Branch is a keen marathon runner, and has already raised £1,300 for the Shoreham Lifeboat appeal when he competed in the New York...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November and December, 1938, and January, 1939, Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally...
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Health & Home Shopping
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Lifeboat Services
West Division Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone...
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Polar Prince
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.49 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Polar Prince had sprung a leak twenty-four miles north-east of Tynemouth. The life-boat Tynesider was...
The Ocean Pride, True Vine, Treasure, The Victory, Boy Arthur,Star of Peace
Amble, Northumberland.—When the local fishing fleet was returning from sea on the morning of the 18th of Sep- tember, 1952, the boats found it diffi- cult to enter the harbour owing to the heavy swell. At 11.15 in the morning- the life-boat...
The Fund Raisers
Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...
Category: Articles
More Flowers for the Life-Boats
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat mention was made of the substantial sum which the Honorary Secretary at Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton had raised by the sale at the Boathouse of flowers from his garden. Now we have heard from another...
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Silver Prince
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 3rd October the lifeboat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks. The weather was then fine, with fog patches. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 5.35 A.M., and...