LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radio London
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.13 a.m.
on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cable had parted from the wireless transmitting station Radio London and that the vessel was drifting,...
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MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...
Rfd Inflatables Ltd
RFD are pioneers in the field of inflatable equipment.
They were the first company to introduce automatic inflation — the first to produce canopied liferafts - the first to receive Government Approval for liferafts on...
Category: Advertisement
Ramsgate:
Ramsgate: Sunday June 9 was the day Ramsgate's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was dedicated and named Ramsgate Enterprise. Mr Martin Lewis, grandson of the late Mrs Holway who had left a sum of money to the station, is seen here unveiling two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Two hours searching - but nothing found One person is rescued, on average, every time an RNLI lifeboat is launched. Life-saving rescues are great news stories and it is these that capture the headlines across the country. But often the less...
Florette
JANUARY 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A heavy easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and violent squalls of hail and snow, and the life-boat coxswain and motor-mechanic had been on the alert for some time when, at 1.2...
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FEBRUARY 1 7 T H . - P O R T A S K A I G , ARGYLLSHIRE. On the 16th February a request was received by telephone from a doctor and the minister on the Island of Colonsay for the help of the life-boat to bring a sick woman to Islay, whence...
A British Aeroplane (3)
JUNE 9TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 3.3 P.M. the coastguard reported that a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Reighton Gap, and at 3.20 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched. The weather was foggy, with a light easterly...
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MAY 16TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The life-boat crew were called out at 8.30 in the morning to stand by, as a heavy gale was blowing from the northnorth- east, with heavy seas breaking across the harbour entrance,...