LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Purple Helmets Get a Safety Briefing from Skipper 'Pies' (Back)
' The Purple Helmets Get A Safety Briefing From Skipper 'Pies' (Back). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Farne Islands
This photograph was taken from the Longstone Lighthouse itself and the big rock on the right is the Harker where the Forfarshire was wrecked. In the middle can be seen the old lighthouse on Brownsman Island where Grace Darling lived until... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Aghios Georgios II
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO LEBANESE STEAMER Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 30th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Eastbourne honorary secretary that a ship had been reported on fire four miles south of...
A Canoe (1)
JULY 9TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. A canoe had capsized with two people on board, but the police rescued them from the shore with lines.-Rewards, £5 13s..
Mizpah. The Danish Barque Aurora Borealis, of Rebe
On the morning of the 5th January, the wind blowing fresh from E.S.E. with thick fog, guns were heard at in- tervals of five minutes, apparently from the North Sand Head and Gull light-ships; and the life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
The Lady Betty
On the 17th August the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a dinghy, with one man on board, had capsized near Ledge buoy. The motor life-boat Langham was just about to be launched when the man swam ashore. At the same time the coastguard...
A Canoe (1)
the morn- ing of the 14th September a young visitor to Saundersfoot put out in a canoe. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. About half a mile off shore the canoe capsized, and was blown another mile out to sea with the boy...
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JULY 26TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
A lady doctor, a visitor on holiday, developed acute appendicitis. An immediate operation was necessary. No other boat was available and the local doctor asked the life-boat to take her...
A Fishing Coble
SEPT. 26TH. - SUNDERLAND, CO. DURHAM.
A fishing coble had been reported in distress, but a pilot cutter took her in tow.- Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
Schoolgirl's Life-Boat Song
When the honorary secretary of the Pinner branch, Mrs. Carver, visited the Pinnerwood Primary School to empty the collecting box she was greeted withlife-boat song composed by Susan Tublin aged ten, who had trained the choir composed of...
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