LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...
Meetings of Committee
6th May. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, held on the 22nd April; also of the previous monthly Meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward...
Category: Committee
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
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RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
RNLI News
Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.
The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...
Category: Articles
ALDEBURGH’S ACORNS
Legend has it that carrying acorns will bring you good luck and longevity. At Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station, it’s a belief that has been rooted for 117 years. Why? Because for one lifeboatman, the legend came true.
Augustus...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
Category: Donations
100 Years Ago
THE present year (1861) came in on our English north-eastern coast in storm and fury. For the two last days of the dying year a tempest had been brewing; and on New-Year's Day, when we quiet city folks were exchanging "com- pliments...
Category: Articles
Senex Fidelis
Five saved as fishing vessel drags ashore in storm force winds Arocky cove backed with high cliffs is no place to be when a severe onshore gale, gusting to Storm Force, is pounding the coast, but that is exactly the situation Coxswain Pat...
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Boys stranded at base of cliffWhen reports came through of two people trapped by the tide south of Tynemouth Harbour, Mechanic Kevin Mole knew a quick launch was vital Kevin Mole was at Tynemouth station when he heard that two boys were...