LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy, Rowing Boat and Motor Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At 12.37 P-m- on 28th July, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties two and a half miles north-east of the station.
Three other youths...
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LIFE-BOAT TOWED BULLOCK At 3.50 p.m. on 2ist November, 1965, a farmer informed the coxswain that a bullock had fallen over the cliff at East Pickard Bay and asked for the life-boat's assistance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary...
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...
Category: Awards
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Cut off by tide SOME CHILDREN cut off by the tide on rocks near Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, were reported to the honorary secretary of Kinghorn ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1430 on Thursday, July 29.
The rocks, an...
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Washed off pier THE DUTY WATCHKEEPER On RanlSgate East Pier was told at 0305 on Saturday November 29, 1980, that an angler had been washed off the pier by a heavy sea. The Trinity House 40ft pilot launch Versatile was at that time off duty...
Burry Port
This is what to do with your lifeboat after she has come out of service for the winter: push her for 12 miles along the road between Burry Port, Dyfed, and Loughor, pass a few pubs on the way and with the sponsorship collected in each pub... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Central Appeals Committee
'THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT' is getting off to an excellent start, if the Central Appeals Committee's projects are anything to go by—although it was a great disappointment that owing to the fuel crisis, the Midnight Matinee at the...
Category: Committee
Mjkmtell C O G N a C
MA 1 11 The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
Category: Advertisement
Scarborough August 1 1987:
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hot Banana
The speedboat Hot Banana lived up to her name on 6 July when a fire, believed to have started in the outboard engine, spread to the fuel tank and caused a major explosion.
The boat burst into flames at the entrance to...