LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
While the Choir of Grey Court School Ham Sang Carols for An Hour Richmond Station a Collection of £114 Was Taken for the Rnli By the 14Th Richmond Sea Scouts (Group Shoreline Membe
While the choir of Grey Court School, Ham, sang carols for an hour Richmond station, a collection of £114 was taken for the RNLI by the 14th Richmond Sea Scouts (group Shoreline members). Altogether Richmondwith- Kew branch raised £... - View image in PDF
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Pictures Above and Below Show the Longhope Lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., Just Before the Naming Was Done By Mrs. Marian Thornton, An Edinburgh Solicitor's Wife, Who Was N
Pictures above and below show the Longhope lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., just before the naming was done by Mrs. Marian Thornton, an Edinburgh solicitor's wife, who was nominated by the family of Miss Charlotte A. King... - View image in PDF
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Whitby's New Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The...
By the Time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 Prototype
Developing new lifeboats to meet the needs of the 1990s and into the next century is an expensive business. By the time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 prototype pictured here enters service it is estimated that production boats will cost some... - View image in PDF
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The Auxiliary Barge Arctic Dawn
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 12.55 in the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small barge was flying a signal and drifting to the north-east, half a mile offshore.
The motor life-boat...
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Bacchus
MEVASISSBT, OOBHWAM,.—On the 1st September the smaek Bacchus, of Nantes, which had been towed from Buthleven to Charlestown in ballast, and had anchored in Oharlestown Bay, was in great danger owing to the heavy gale which had sprung up from...
The S.S. Chant 63
JUNE 5TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel in difficulties five miles away, east of Bridlington coastguard station. She had a heavy list and her crew were abandoning her. A...
Fishing Vessels and Express
FISHING VESSEL STRIKES PIER IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 1st November, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that several fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 3.0...