LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
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Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...
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Key RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS
A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal boat. However the cost of owning one in their retirement seemed...
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Chris Davies
Chris Davies Cardigan crew member, aged just 20, from a tragic road accident on 18 November.
Category: Obituaries
The Sand Boats Wisbech, Lintie and Kinfauns
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, a director of the Tay Sand Co., Ltd., telephoned to say that two sand boats were dredging above the Tay Bridge and were now heavily laden.
A...
Pulborough
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.34 on the evening of the 10th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Pulborough of London had a sick man on board in Yarmouth Roads. The life-boat...
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Above -International Lifeboat Federation
Above -International Lifeboat Federation representatives from 27 countries joined by HRH The Duke of Kent, William O'Neil, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation; RNLI Chairman David Acland and Director Andrew... - View image in PDF
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Obituary
Sir William Cony, Bt.; Dr. J. Iredale, Honorary Secretary, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire; Mr. William Adams, late Coxswain, North Deal..
Category: Obituaries
A Power Boat
The front cover photograph of this issue of THE LIFEBOAT, reproduced here, sums up the work of the lifeboat crews - a survivor in good hands and on his wayto safety ashore.
This service, by both of Portsmouth (Langstone...