LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman's Gallant Swim
AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...
Category: Services
Maureen
TOW FOR YACHT WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties and drifting close...
The S.S. Pinedene
SALCOMBK, SOUTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been reported by the Coastguard on the 17th January, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 12.10 A.M. and proceeded towards Prawle Point; when about two miles distant from there she showed...
The S.S. Cairo City
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.34 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Cross Sand Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had reported that she had been in collision and...
Faustona
At 1.15 P.M. on the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Point of Ayre light- house that the yacht Faustina, of Fleetwood, with four men on board, was in distress off Port Cranstal, and wanted...
The Letter Writers
In these days when the telephone is more attractive than letter writing it is always a pleasure to receive a hand-written note. Early this year the R.N.L.I.
received 28 such letters from pupils of Pinkwell Junior School,...
Category: Donations
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services
Above L–R: The Awesome Foursome On Their Fundraising Travels
Above L–r: the awesome foursome on their fundraising travels. Bobby Hanscomb, tobin Duke, Andrew Freemantle and Gerard Wyllys. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thorsons
BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE " "A Doctor's Proven New Home Cure For Arthritis" More than a million people in the United Kingdom have 'their lives impaired by ; arthritis. Osteopath, Giraud Campbell, has advised hundreds of...
Category: Advertisement
Frambee
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 4.34 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police at Worthing had reported that a yacht had capsized west of the pier off Goring beach. The life-boat Rosa...