LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....
Zem Zem, of London
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
As soon as the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, returned at 4.40 in the afternoon, after towing the boat Harriett into...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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An Aeroplane (166)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At 1.15 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported that fire and smoke had been seen some miles S.S.W. of Ravenshall Point, and fifteen minutes later the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported...
Ruffian
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
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Northerly Storm - Spring Tides (From Page 121)
abbreviated log preceded a day of inspection and damage assessment for all coastal staff in the area. The divisional inspector of lifeboats for the South East, Lieut-Commander Michael Woodroffe, was diverted to carry out a survey of Margate...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Dinghy
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Ship to shore
Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea
Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...
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