LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1956. 66 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 34 times and rescued 31 lives.
ANGLERS IN DISTRESS IN PLYMOUTH SOUND Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm...
Category: Services
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
Category: Services
The Spanish Barque Primera de Torrevieja
On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant...
Empire Alfred and Yardcraft 345
DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...
Fig 3 (Left):
Fig 3 (left): The first FSB prototype fitted with aluminium alloy decks and wheelhouse. The after cabin superstructure, also aluminium, can be seen waiting in foreground.. - View image in PDF
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Rnli news
Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...
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Windsor Rose and June Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. Shortly after noon on the 16th of April, 1960, weather conditions began to deteriorate and some anxiety was felt for two Shering- ham crab boats fishing off Cromer.
The Sheringham coxswain made en- quiries...
Sir Richard
FISHGUABD, SOOTH WALES.—At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 31st of October, signals of distress were shown by two schooners which, with other ves sels, had taken refuge in the bay on the previous day, being unable to go round St....
News and Views
The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.
There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Aboard Stronsay Life-Boat
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh Aboard Stronsay Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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