LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The House-Boat Petrina (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
Merchant Vanguard
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—In the early hours of the 16th of June, 1956, the lighthouse keeper telephoned that rockets were being fired two miles from the harbour. At 2.30 the life- boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in a very rough sea....
The "London Journal" Life-Boat
THERE could probably be no better evidence afforded of the national importance of the work in which the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is engaged than the cordial and valuable co-operation afforded to it by the general press of this country;...
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An Aeroplane (142)
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
Forrester
Search in dense fog A FLARE IN CHAPMAN'S POOL was reported to the deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station at 2130 on Monday, June 14. Visibility was clear at the Coastguard lookout but there was a dense fog bank at sea...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...
Lifeboats Taking Up Their Moorings on the Thames at the Centenary of the Rnli In 1924 There Were Representatives from Denmark France the Netherlands Sweden
Lifeboats taking up their moorings on the Thames at the centenary of the RNLI in 1924. - View image in PDF
There were representatives from Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Britain.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peter Gilson Presents Percy Garon(L) With the Launching Hammer He Has Wielded So Many Times Also There Second from Right Michael Pennell Divisional Inspector of Life
Peter Gilson presents Percy Garon(l.) with the launching hammer he has wielded so many times. Also there, second from right, Michael Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats, east, representing all the coast staff who, over the years, have... - View image in PDF
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Deborah B Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's First Lifeboat Is a 15' Grp Hamilton Jet-Propelled Open Launch from New Zealand on Service Around Bermuda She Will
Deborah B, Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's first lifeboat is a 15' GRP Hamilton jet-propelled open launch from New Zealand. On service around Bermuda she will be operating in waters beset with coral reefs and shallows: she... - View image in PDF
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Group Captain Wedge Is Pictured Preparing to Name the Lifeboat. Looking On, from Left to Right Are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.
Group Captain Wedge is pictured preparing to name the lifeboat. Looking on, from left to right are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.. - View image in PDF
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