LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
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Ronachan, of Glasgow
On the 18th Jan. intelligence was received at the Isle of Whithorn that a large threes-masted vessel was at anchor in Luce Bay, in a position of some peril. The Charlie Peek Life-boat was thereupon quickly launched through a heavy sea, and,...
Gadj
JULY 31ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 7.30 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties, but that she had set a small sail and was approaching Britannia pier. A...
H.M. Minesweeper Wedgeport
OCTOBER 21ST. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.50 A.M. the Tara coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks at the old lighthouse on South Rock, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 7.30 A.M. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing,...
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DECEMBER 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair Isle, was in urgent need of a doctor. A S. by W. gale...
Shirken
JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oysterhaven, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford 1, on temporary duty at the station, was...
77-year-old paperboy still delivers
Paper rounds have traditionally been carried out by children and young people – but 77-year-old David Rickard from Devon doesn’t let that stop him. Since 2006, the pensioner paperboy has been donating all of his wages and tips to good causes...
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Speed Boats
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P .M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of...
New Ways of Raising Money
A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...
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Book Corner
• Much in demand in recent years but soon out of print after its appearance in 1958, Cyril Jolly's book HenryBlogg ofCromer (George Harrap.
£1.90) has been reprinted with the usual...
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