LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hartlepool: Young supporter runs for lives
Millie Crangle is a 9-year-old RNLI supporter and the daughter of volunteer Crew Member Mark. Last year, she took on the Junior Great North Run to help save lives at sea – raising over £400 and
running 4km. Millie says: ‘It...
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Shark Tempest
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.20 p.m.
on 12th April, 1968, a report was received that a small boat was firing flares 500 yards from Stackpool quay. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.28 in a moderate easterly...
Herring Drifters
Maryport, Cumberland. — After two days of very bad weather, conditions moderated somewhat on the 26th October and herring drifters put to sea. During the afternoon the weather got very bad again, and by 6.30 P.M.
a whole W....
People and Places
Lottery Saturday afternoon shoppers jostled with each other for the best view of the 39th lottery draw. The event took place at 3pm on Saturday, October 31 inside the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket, by kind permission of branch...
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New Quay: HANDLES WITH CARE
Two volunteers from New Quay lifeboat station travelled 313 miles to Penlee in Cornwall on 7 November – to present a set of old cast-iron door handles. Mechanic Bernie Davies explains: ‘On reading on Facebook that someone had stolen the old...
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At a Ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7
At a ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7, County Councillor J. Ormond Holliday, vice-president of Silloth branch, opened the station's new tractor house and then Silloth's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, principally... - View image in PDF
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Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN WILLIAM CROWLEY, of the Fenit life-boat Hilton Briggs.
A member of the crew since 1928, Coxwain Crowley, who is 58, was appointed bowman in 1936, since which time the life-boat has been launched 58 times and has... - View image in PDF
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A Crashed Firefly Aeroplane
Penlee, Cornwall.—About 3.18 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1949, the Penzer Point coastguard tele- phoned that Culdrose Air Station had reported a crashed Firefly aeroplane, three miles south of Penzer Point. A Sea Otter rescue...
Samarang
BEBCAB, YOBKSHIEE, — The barque Samammg, of Newcastle, timber laden from Quebec, was reported ashore about a mile south of Marske daring aN. wind and a heavy sea at 6 A.M. on the 10th October.
The Surion-on-Trent Life-boat...