LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal opening for Cowes station
HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.
The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...
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James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN Richard Evans of Moelfre, Mr. Kenneth Derham of Christchurch, Hampshire, Coxswain Daniel Kirk- patrick of Longhope, Motor Mechanic Evan Owens of Moelfre, Coxswain Harry Thomas of Torbay and Cox- swain Albert Watson of Cromarty ! ...
Category: Awards
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
Lifeguards rescue boaters
5 August: Lifeguards on Castlerock Beach, Co Antrim, rescued a man and woman from the water after their boat sank. The boaters had sent out a mayday call and the lifeguards, closest to the scene, were quick to...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 9.32 on the evening of the 3rd of May, 1958, the Polruan coastguard told the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been seen three to four miles south-east of the look-out. At 9.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz...
Plouer
About 1 P.M. on the 29th June, during a whole N. by E.
gale, information reached Margate that a ketch was in distress off Reculvers.
With considerable difficulty owing to the heavy surf breaking on the...
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JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s Day. A very strong south-easterly wind...
A Ride on a Bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee
A ride on a bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee in 4'h days is a feat impressive enough in itself, but when one learns that the 212-mile ride was made on a penny farthing bicycle and by a 73-year-old man, Jock Harrison, well, that is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Welcome at Bembridge Lifeboat Station for Nigel Foster Who Raised £350 for Bembridge
A welcome at Bembridge lifeboat station for Nigel Foster who raised £350 for Bembridge ladies' guild in the London Marathon. The cheque was received by Mrs S. Snelling, guild president. With them are (I to r front centre) Mrs D.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship (2)
MARCH 8 T H . - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
It had been reported that the crew of a bombed ship were taking to their boats, but the life-boat found nothing except an empty ship’s boat. - Rewards, £19 13s..