LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Legacies large or small can provide a wide range of vital equipment, whether it be a £2.000 GPS satellite navigator, a £13,000 electronic chan system, a bump cap at £7 (all shown abovelorad.175.000 Trent class lifeboat (below/... - View image in PDF

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Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, a holiday-maker told the cox- swain that a dinghy was in distress off Newbiggin Point and was drifting out to sea. There was a moderate westerly breeze, and the sea...

Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....

Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.

The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...

SICK CHILD TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Gahvay Bay. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a child suffering from appendicitis to Rossaveel for...

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THE new St. Helier life-boat arrived at her station on the llth of September, 1948, and on the 14th of October her naming ceremony was held on a sunny afternoon after a morning of storm.

The station was established in 1884,...