LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Broughty
NOVEMBER 9TH. - THE HUMBER , YORKSHIRE. About 4.15 in the morning information was received from the Mablethorpe coastguard, through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, that the Saltfleet coastguard had seen distress rockets. A light...
£100 for a Life-Boat Flag
ON life-boat flag day in Birming- ham an elderly woman went to a collector, and instead of putting copper or silver in the life-boat in return for her flag, gave the collector a little package. When it was opened it was found to contain...
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Contents
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Volume L Number 497 Lifeboat Services.
Fraserhurgh: When a job needs doing, by Georgette Purches.
42 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.I.
Director and...
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ROADS BLOCKED WITH SNOW Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.55 on the night of the 5th of March, 1947, a doctor who was urgently needed for a maternity case at Aithsetter, asked the life-boat to take him as the roads were impassable. A moderate...
Joe Salmon
Joe Salmon, foreman rigger at the RNLI's Poole Depot since 1983, who joined the department as a rigger in 1977. He is survived by his wife Marlene, post room supervisor at RNLI headquarters, Poole..
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Shearwater Press
NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.
Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...
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On the 10th May some men from Bryher on their way home noticed four men ashore on Mincarlo, a small island south-west of Bryher, apparently without a boat. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. They went close and found...
The S.S. Amisia
At 5.30 A.M. on the 7th December signals of distress were observed in the Barry Roads, and the assembly signal was fired for the crew of the Life-boat John Wesley. Before the boat was launched the tug-boat came into the harbour and reported...
Marigold
Bembridge, Isle of Wight..—Early in the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1939, a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged.
She was kept under observation by the coastguard and life-boatmen. A...
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THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...