LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
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The Cooperative Bank
The COOPERATIVE BANK At this loan rate you could afford to S D1£IS ll O U t • any amount from £1,000 to £15,000 • funds transferred directly to your bank account - with the option of same day transfer* • no arrangement fees or...
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The Sea Belle
About 5 P.M.
on the 20th July a small yawl was observed close to the Goodwin Sands in j a very dangerous position apparently j not under proper control, arid griping \ towards the sand. Within a short time it...
Cycles at the Ready:
Cycles at the ready: I to r, postman, Mr Semple, Jim Berry, Walton and Frinton lifeboat mechanic, Keith Richardson, assistant mechanic, Coxswain Dennis Finch and chairman of the ladies' guild, Mrs Robertson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
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The Big Day
The colourful 'Magic Roundabout' float, entered by the Dreel Tavern, taking part in Anstrutner lifeboat station's annual gala. Photo William F. Flett. - View image in PDF
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The Kismet, of Preston
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
The Sailing Boat Spray
Margate, Kent. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating near the West Pan Sand buoy and a request was made for the life-boat to recover it....
The Sailing Barge Davenport
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
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