LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
U.S. Coast Guard Station on the Great Lakes, With Crew Performing Capsize Drill In a Surf Boat
US Coast Guard Station on the Great Lakes With Crew Performing Capsize Drill In A Surf Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Meurig Davies Makes the Final Checks Before Llandudno's Andy Pearce Is Launched With the Duchess of Kent on Board
Coxswain Meurig Davies makes the final checks before Llandudno's Andy Pearce is launched with The Duchess of Kent on board. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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On Board Grace Paterson Ritchie Mr M Olsen (Left) on Behalf of the Faroese Life-Saving Society Presents Lieut-Commander P E C Pickles Mbe Jp Rnvr With a Wal
On board Grace Paterson Ritchie Mr M. Olsen (left), on behalf of the Faroese Life-saving Society, presents Lieut.-Commander P. E. C.
Pickles, MBE, JP, RNVR, with a wall light made from a pair of horns for the RNLI. With... - View image in PDF
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A Rowing Boat (4)
AUG. 19TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the life-boat could find nothing.- Rewards, £11 15s..
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...
Category: Obituaries
Three Men In a Tub
The RNLI and the Wishing Well Appeal for Great Ormond Street Hospital both benefitted from the efforts of the Channel Challenge team, members of which sailed 80 miles from Guernsey to Devon in a converted bathtub.
The team,... - View image in PDF
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Lottery
There was a family atmosphere at the draw of the 35th national lottery on October 31, 1986. The draw was made in front of staff and supporters by the reigning Miss Bournemouth, Celia Williams (pictured right), whose other claim to fame is... - View image in PDF
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A Coaster and a Trawler
NOVEMBER 5TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A. coaster and trawler had gone aground on Walney Island, but both vessels refloated with the rising tide and were able to go on their way. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
A Canoe
Cromer, Norfolk.—2nd August, 1938.
A bather had got into difficulties at Walcot Gap, and two men who had put out in a canoe were lost and the bather had been saved before the life-boat could reach them.—Rewards, £9 Is....
Valerian
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1956, a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a yacht had just entered Dartmouth and had reported that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble...