LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Russian Seaman Took This Photograph As the Duchess of Kent Lifeboat (Arrowed) Was Overturned By a Huge Wave. on the Right the Only Survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—Is Shown Landing from Th
A Russian seaman took this photograph as the Duchess of Kent lifeboat (arrowed) was overturned by a huge wave. On the right the only survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—is shown landing from the Buckle lifeboat after being picked up by a Russian... - View image in PDF
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Photo South Wales Evening Post (Left) Vice President of the RNLI the Duke of Atholl Presides Over the Scottish Region Draw at the King James Thistle Hotel.
Photo South Wales Evening Post left) Vice President of the RNLI The Duke of Atholl presides over the Scottish Region draw at the King James Thistle Hotel. - View image in PDF
Photo Capital Press. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (12)
OCTOBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by another aeroplane. - Rewards : St. Ives, £11 1s. ; Padstow, £3 9s..
Plymouth's Madonna Look-A-Like Caroline Taylor
Plymouth's Madonna look-a-like, Caroline Taylor, wax bundled into a cur and driven off at high speed by the baddies. Having transferred to a bout the bad guys and their captive rendezvoused with good guy Lord Mayor Tonv Parish, who was... - View image in PDF
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 6
AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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Floralie
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
To the Help of Foreigners.
Of 1108 launches during the year 251 were to foreign vessels belonging to eighteen different countries and 608 lives were rescued from them. Never has the Lifeboat Service more faithfully carried out the promise which it made when it was...
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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Life-Boat Inns
A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.
The disaster occurred on the 13th...
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The Presenters of BBC TV's Coast
The Presenters Of Bbc Tv's Coast. - View image in PDF
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