LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JANUARY 23RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 8.35 A.M. a man reported that he had seen a flare and the motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 8.45 A.M.
A moderate N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. Eight...
Tyre-Ing Carnival Day!
Eight-year-old Heather Lean took to the boats to help Newquay lifeboat station last summer. She joined Newquay's carnival parade in a new design of 'inshore lifeboat' - specially made for her by her grandfather Jack Parkin,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
OC T . 2 3 RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and had last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M. Two...
Plymouth Boy Wins Life-Boat Service Essay Competition
ROBERT ANTHONY FOALE of Hyde Park Junior School, Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, has won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the lifeboat service organized by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The competition was open to...
Category: Articles
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Woolly Jumpers No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual...
A Canvas Canoe
JULY 17TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. Three young men had put to sea in a canvas canoe, but lost their lives before the life-boat could reach them. - Rewards, £10 12s. 6d..
SUPER SUPPER SUCCESS
Whether you slaved over a hot stove or just popped down the chippy, thanks for making our Fish Supper a real hit
Thousands of people are feeling that warm glow of satisfaction after sharing a hearty meal for the RNLI Fish...
Category: Articles
A Motor Launch
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.40 on the night of the llth of February, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals between Bognor and Littlehampton, and the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11 o'clock.
A...
Ocean Hound
Dnngeness, Kent. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 2nd of October, 1949, a resident of Lydd telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile west-north- west of Galloways. At eight o'clock the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in...
A Dinghy
Plymouth, South Devon - At 5.10 p.m. on 25th February, 1970, a report was received from the coastguard that a dinghy was drifting seaward four miles south of Downderry.
The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped...