LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Champion (Plugs)
Would you ask people to risk their lives for an old set of spark plugs? Last year our lifeboat crews answered 2,608 distress calls.
In some cases they risked their lives to rescue people from pleasure craft that had broken...
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A Trawler (1)
31st December. A trawler sounded her siren continuously, but it was found that she was only in need of a tug.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
A Trawler
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—llth September.
A trawler was overdue, but was found ashore with her crew safely landed.— Rewards, £25 2s. 6d..
A Spitfire Aeroplane (1)
JUNE 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £8 2s..
A British Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in flames off Southwold, but her crew were lost. - Rewards : Lowestoft, £11 15s. ; Aldeburgh, £49 2s..
A Motor Yacht (1)
NOVEMBER 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A motor yacht had drifted ashore with her engine broken down, but her crew of two got ashore unaided.- Rewards, £16 2s. 6d.
Two Figures
Two figures, representing lifeboatmen of 1882 and 1982 and sculptured by Bernard Schwartz, are being produced b The History of Porcelain Company, High Street, Shoreham Village, Sevenoaks, Kent ("Tel: Otford 3416). Until September 1982... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Times One:
Six times one: John Spivey of Iver, Bucks, was wearing his Shoreline sweater recently on the day he scored a hole in one during a golf tournament. It was, unbelievably, the sixth hole in one of his golfing career and one thing that pleased... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ambassador and Ashlowe
SWANSEA.—The Life-boat Wolverhampton was launched at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd January, in answer to a signal of distress from the barque Ambassador, of Aberdeen, bound from Cardiff to Bio with a cargo of coal, which bad been in collision with...