LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 486, 502, 512, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1968, inclusive: Aberdeen,...
Category: Services
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GIRL ON CLIFF Douglas, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.
on 25th May, 1964, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a girl had climbed down a cliff below the entrance to Howstrake holiday...
Marjansu
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 on the evening of the 1st of December, 1959, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that two motor boats, which had left the harbour earlier in the day, had not returned as expected. Visibility...
L.B.P.
Fishing boat sinks AT 1235 on Thursday August 21, 1986, Oban Coastguard informed Mr A.
McLellan, honorary secretary of Mallaig lifeboat station, that a fishing vesselhad struck rocks on the south coast of Rhum and required...
Capt E. G. Newton
With the appointment of Capt. F. H. Edwards as honorary secretary of the Falmouth branch, Falmouth remembers the long association with the Institution —some 15 years—of the late honorary secretary, Capt. E. G. Newton, who took a personal...
Category: Branches
Lynx
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.10 P.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the Broughness coastguard that distress signals had been heard in the Pentland Firth. This was confirmed by a wireless message from a trawler saying...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness.
He was appointed coxswain in October 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats have been launched on service 47 times and have rescued 22...
Category: Articles
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Llandaff Blesses Barry Dock's Two Lifeboats the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley During a Service of Re-Dedication and Thank
The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Llandaff blesses Barry Dock's two lifeboats, the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley during a service of re-dedication and thanksgiving on Sunday, August 22, 1976, to commemorate the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Waterbaby
At 8.58 a.m. on ist August, 1966, it was felt that, in view of the deteriorating weather conditions, a small yacht was likely to find herself in difficulties in Rye bay. The life-boat crew assembled and stood by. At the request of the...