LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized near the West Princess buoy.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
A Motor Boat
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat with five people on board had broken down, and that the people on board were waving their arms. The life-boat...
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...
Thirza
At 6.5 P.M. on the 17th January signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the Barber- Sands during a strong S.W.
breeze and heavy sea. The crew of the No, 1 Life-boat Govent Garden were assembled and the boat...
Inchcolm
The Life-boat William Arthur Millward was called out shortly after nine in the morning on the 21st August to a vessel which had stranded on the Peffer Sands, some miles westward of Dunbar. The Life-boat was promptly launched, not without...
Alexandrine
The Motor Life- boat, H. F. Bailey, put out at 11.5 A.M.
on the llth October, in hazy weather with a smooth sea and moderate S.W.
breeze, as the Haisborough Light-vessel had reported a vessel aground op....
The Life-Boat Stamp Bureau
THE Life-boat Stamp Bureau, which was founded by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, in 1933, is continuing and ex- tending its work. Miss Power has now a number of regular customers who want only first-class...
Category: Articles
No Mystery for Poirot!
No mystery for Poirot! Despite the fact that they were filming a 'whodunnit' there was no mystery about the benefits to Salcombe lifeboat when a London Weekend Television film crew spent two weeks in the town.
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Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
ON HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, August 4, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was sent the following telegram by our Chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'Members of the RNLI Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff thank...
Category: Articles
Margaret
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...