LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brawn teams fund new London lifeboat
Formula One mastermind Ross Brawn has inspired teams from some of London’s leading companies to raise £360,000 in just 8 months, most of which will be used to fund a new E class lifeboat for the River Thames.
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Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
Lewes Castle
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 8.44 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals in Spitway. The sea was rough and a moderate breeze was blowing from the south-south-west, when at 8.56 the...
Golden Rule
BY RADIO TELEPHONE Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 9 p.m.
on 29th April, 1964, a local man reported that he had heard a message on his radio telephone that the motor fishing vessel Golden Rule, of Stromness, needed...
Elation
ON CAISTER SHOAL Caister, Norfolk. At 6.30 a.m. on i ith October, 1964, when the mechanic was fishing at sea he saw a small vessel aground on Caister shoal. The honorary secretary was told and at 7.5 the life-boat The Royal Thames left in a...
Three Dinghies and Taurus
Dover, Kent -At 6.5 p.m. on 4th June, 1967, it was reported that three skindivers who had been taken to the Varne bank, accompanied by three dinghies, had come to the surface and were drifting eastwards.
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Captain John Leworthy
Captain John Leworthy of the committee of management receives £18,000 from Andrew Maclean, chief general manager of the Municipal Mutual Insurance Group, the first proceeds from a joint promotion. (Below) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wisp
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. •— On Sunday the 10th September, 1939, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the south-ward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was...
Cromer Naming Ceremony
Coxswain Henry Blogg with the Bishop of Norwich and the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., Secretary of State for Home Affairs. (See page 395.). - View image in PDF
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Inshore Rescue Boats
Up to the end of June 1963 the new fast inshore rescue boats have been launched on service five times. The following is the list of services or at- tempted services: June 1st: Aberystwyth I.R.B. es- corted in a sailing boat in tow of a speed...
Category: Services