LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Their Bikes!
On their bikes! A civic appeal started by Cllr George Parkinson, chairman of Wokingham district council in 1993 and pictured right, culminated in a sponsored cycle ride in April and brought the final total to £11,700 for his two-year... - View image in PDF
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Jayne Edmunds and Eric Jones Were Each Presented With An Inscribed Wrist Watch
Jayne Edmunds and Erie Jones were each presented with an inscribed wrist watch.. - View image in PDF
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Unflagging Support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (R)
Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.
Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF
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Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1979 January and February 1980
Beaumaris, Gwynedd February 10 Blackpool, Lancashire January 2, 30 (twice), 31 and February 3 Brighton, East Sussex February 6 Broughty Ferry, Angus December 24 Conwy, Gwynedd January 19 and February 4 Flint, Clwyd February 23 Great Yarmouth...
Category: Services
Resolute, of Peterhead, and Brig A. E. M., of Nantes
At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...
Clacton Co-Operative Band Was Just One of the Attractions on Clacton Pier for a Highly Successful 'Charity Nile' Last June Free Rides on the Funfair Cabaret and Two Fre
Clacton Co-operative Band was just one of the attractions on Clacton Pier for a highly successful 'Charity Nile' last June. Free rides on the funfair, cabaret and two free dolphin shows helped to make the evening a success. More than... - View image in PDF
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Amy-Jim
Aldeburgh, Suffolk At 12.22 in the afternoon of the 9th of December,1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat was flying a distress signal one and a half miles north-east of Aldeburgh, and at 12.35 the No. 2 life-boat...
Muir Ara
Galway Bay - At 7.30 p.m. on 25th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a report that distress flares had been seen about a mile south east of the North Aran light. At 8.5 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched.
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The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan Accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock
Music to the RNLI's ears! Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock tries to find the tune on a £500 cheque presented by the society's chairman Mr Gilbert Clayton to Mr Doug Reeves, honorary secretary of... - View image in PDF
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