LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
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Cairnduna
In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat...
Cover Picture
Ships that pass . . . from an Atlantic 21, Ambrose Greenway took this picture of an experimental 19' Zodiac Mark V, crossing the larger ILITs wash. The Zodiac Mark V has a standing steering position, to give the helmsman better height of... - View image in PDF
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Super Supper
Super supper The ladies of Llantwit Major lifeboat guild held their Christmas supper in December - the fourth time in the perfect setting of the historic St Donat's Castle.
The home cooked meal together with rousing... - View image in PDF
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Bretton Hall
BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.
wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...
Fox
SOUTHSEA.—On the 3rd March while a strong gale was blowing, the weather being very cold and thick, with squalls of rain and hail, intelligence was receivedthat a vessel was in distress and that the Warner Light Vessel was sending up rockets....
University Marine Ltd
Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...
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Two Rubber Dinghies
RESCUE OF YOUTHS IN DINGHIES New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.12 on the morning of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies were drifting out to sea half a mile off Aberayron. At 10.40 the life-boat St. Albans...
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Galvvay Bay - At 20 minutes past midnight on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a young man had been seriously injured in a fall from a motor scooter, and the doctor had requested the use of the life-boat to...
Peel, Isle of Man - Ireland Division
Peel's boathouse and slipway - tucked into the crook of the harbour between the breakwater and St Patrick's Isle in the main photo - were rebuilt in 1992 to house the station's carriage-launched Mersey. Because of the picturesque... - View image in PDF
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