LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M. A. Watkin
On the 19th November, the No. 1 Lifeboat Mark Lane was called out on service at 10 A.M., by signals shown by the dandy M. A. Watkin, of Grimsby, which, having lost all her canvas in the storm of the previous night, had been compelled to run...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 5 March 1996 show that during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 7,312 times (an average of more than 20 launches a day) 1,632 lives were saved (an average of more than 4 a day) Some 3...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 26th of Octo- ber', 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Brighton police had reported that a rowing boat, with two men on board, had anchored about one hun- dred and fifty...
Faringdon
Captain of the darts team of The Swan public house at Faringdon, Oxfordshire, Jimmy Richens, looks remarkably sharp eyed considering this photograph was taken during a gruelling 24-hour marathon in aid of the local RNLI branch. The marathon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Cross's Broadcast.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station made a wireless appeal for the life-boat service in the "Weeks Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C.
on 2ist. April. There were over 11,000 replies. The gifts...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, while the IRB was on patrol off Porthmeor beach during a surf life-saving competition, her crew were told that a swimmer was in difficulties between Crowner Rock and Clodgy Point. The...
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HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
A Patrol Boat
DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
No news had been received from an R.A.F. launch which had put off to the help of a small patrol boat, but it was found that she had returned sometime before. - Rewards, £16...
Ferrocrete
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—The motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 12.56 A.M. on the 20th May in response to signals from the St.
Nicholas light-vessel which had...
Books
The history of the Lerwick lifeboats The history of the New Quay lifeboats The history of Barrow lifeboats By Jeff Morris Price: £3.50 each (including postage and packaging) The honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts'...
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