LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Careema
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At midnight on the 31st July, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was flashing distress signals about a mile east-south-east of Lowes- toft harbour. There was a light south-...
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MATERNITY NEEDS At 11 p.m. on 28th December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
There was a strong south-easterly breeze with a...
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At 4.25 a.m. on 23rd June, 1967, it was learned that a helicopter was flying at first light to bring ashore the Lundy island lighthouse keeper who was suffering from second degree burns. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker slipped her moorings...
Black Maria
At 6.55 p.m. on I5th July, 1967, it was reported that a boat was in difficulties off Bray. The life-boat John F. Kennedyslipped her moorings at 7.6 in a fresh south easterly wind and a choppy sea.
The tide was ebbing. The...
A Dinghy
Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a...
Leon Laura, of Lowestoft
At 7.25 p.m. on fth June, 1966, a vessel was seen flying a distress signal and burning red flares four miles east of the lookout. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left her moorings at 7.40 in a gentle westerly wind and a slight...
Swanage - Mersey Class Robert Charles Brown
The new Mersey class Robert Charles Brown waits at the head of the slipway during her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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Swing Low...
Phil Vickery MBE, a member of England's rugby world cup winning side, opened the new lifeboat station at Bude recently.. - View image in PDF
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Morecambe Hovercraft
Morecambe hovercraft crew put The Hurley Flyer through her paces during training at Poole in December 2002 Photos: Jon Jones/RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tony Krowmann
WITHBRNSBA.—At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th October a messenger from Sandy le Mere, two miles N. of Withernsea, stated that a vessel was ashore there, too far off for the rocket apparatus to reach her, that the sea was getting up...