Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF
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Where the money goes... New production Trent and Severn class lifeboats are now entering service, each costing more than £1m . With speeds of up to 25 knots they are reducing the response times wherever they are stationed. The prototype... - View image in PDF
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The West and East German lifeboat organisations have now combined to form a single lifeboat service. This is the former West German 'daughter boat' Onkel W/ffi being recovered aboard the parent vessel during a demonstration at the... - View image in PDF
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Boston ahoy! re cannot be many branches that have their committee meetings at, but the Boston branch is one. Thanks to the support of new imittee member Sarah Simms, the committee now meet on her t. the Boston Belle. The 're-launched'... - View image in PDF
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On the 19th October the Llandwyn life-boat put off to the assistance of a smack which was dragging her anchor off the south coast of the Island of Anglesea, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. With the aid of the...
On the 9th May the schooner Maria, " of Milford, ran on the bar at the mouth of the Boyne during a heavy gale from E.S.E. The Drogheda life-boat was quickly launched, and after one fruitless attempt succeeded in taking off her crew of 3...
RESCUED BOAT SINKS Margate, Kent.—-At 5.15 in the afternoon of April the 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that two small vessels were in distress three miles north-east of Margate. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th September the pleasure motor boat Sunbeam, of Cleethorpes, took a party of fourteen to Spurn. Shortly after she had left on the return journey the signal-station watchman reported that she...
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—Two boys put out from Sunderland in the small boat Lizzie on the night of the 19th September, but soon got into difficulties, and their boat drifted about all night.
Next day the second coxswain of...
Cromarty.—Early in the afternoon of the 12th January the Helmsdale coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground in a dangerous position at the entrance to Little Ferry, in Dornoch Firth. She was the s.s.
Totnes, of...