LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Selsey Life-Boat on the Thames
THE new Life-boat for Selsey—of the Watson Cabin type—which during last winter was on temporary service at Cromer, made a trip up the Thames in July, after undergoing overhaul at the Storeyard, before she went to her station. She was manned...
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Life-Boatman's Statuette
old Cork Life-belt) of the figure of the Life-boatman which stands on the memorial at Margate to the nine Life-boatmen who were drowned by the capsizing of the surf boat Friend of All Nations, in December, 1897, when going out to the rescue...
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Hilary Anne
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958,the Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser had broken down a quarter of a mile from the Mid Barrow...
Panda
Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.
At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
The S.S. Nedjan
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had stranded about two hundred vards north of Church Point.
At 3.9 the life-boat Richard Ashley...
Daphne
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...
Musketier
Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.45 on the night of the 15th of May, 1958, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Musketier of Groningen was in difficulty five miles north of Trevose Head, as her cargo of...
Boston Seafoam
Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.45 p.m. on 22nd October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honor-ary secretary that red flares had been reported in the area of the island of Scarba. The life-boat Francis...
Four Saved from Yacht
Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
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Keeping History Preserved
Keeping history preserved I read the feature on the National lifeboat Collection at Chatham with great interest, unfortunately the collection does not include the 'jewel in the crown', the oldest existing lifeboat in the world - the... - View image in PDF
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