LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
An Aeroplane (2)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, and Walton and Frinton. Essex.—17th July, 1939. A message had been received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between Walton Pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from...
A Bicycle for Life-Saving at Sea
LAST March one of the Institution's contractors forwarded to it a letter inquiring if there were any kind of bicycle " used at summer resorts for saving life," as the writer was " about to invent a bicycle of that...
Category: Articles
A Fine Dutch Service
WE had hoped to publish in this number of The Lifeboat an account of a very fine service by three Dutch Lifeboats last February to the English steamer Shonga, for which the King has presented the British Government's Silver Medal...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
Janetta
Workington, Cumberland - At 11.34 p.m. on 5th February, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boaiJanetta, with a crew of two, had broken down six and a half miles north west of Workington. At 11.54 the...
Mr. J. C. Hilton
An honorary secretary who gave active service to the Clovelly life- boat station for more than 40 years died on 26th November, 1963. This was Mr. J. C. Hilton, who joined the branch committee in 1922, was honorary secretary from 1932 to 1948...
Category: Obituaries
A Boat (4)
Dover, Kent. At 1.27 on the after- noon of the 12th September, 1961, a report was received that a small boat with one man on board was in diffi- culties west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moor- ings at 1.46 in...
None (6)
At 11.30 p.m. on igth July, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that a young man had been taken ill and urgently needed hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 12.30 a.m. on 20th July with the patient...
A Dinghy (3)
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.16 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified that H.M.S. Plover had picked up a small dinghy with two people on board about five miles south-west of Beachy Head. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache...