LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
November and December 1996, January and February 1997 Aberdeen, Grampian Arun: Jan 4 and 24 Relief D class: Dec 24 and Jan 4 Aith, Shetland Arun: Nov 6, 11, 16 and Dec 23 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Mersey: Nov 14, 15 and Dec 5 Relief D class: Nov 14...
Category: Services
Sheringham - East Division
Sheringham's long straight and exposed coastline can be seen stretching away to the east in the main photo on the left, with the boathouse and slipway for the station's Atlantic 75 visible on the foreshore - tucked under the cliffs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
Thank you for my journal (the Lifeboat, Winter issue). The prize-winning photograph taken by Neville Murphy, of the Dunmore East station crew changing room, brought back memories of my boyhood. When in Sunderland, I accompanied my...
Category: Articles
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
A NEW division of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade has been formed at Brixham, where it will work in conjunc- tion with the Torbay life-boat, turning out whenever the life-boat receives a call, and standing by to give first aid to any among...
Category: Articles
Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., of Torbay
MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
Category: Obituaries
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GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
Christine
Salcombe, Devon. At 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a flashing light had been seen off Lambury Point. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out at 7.35 in calm weather shortly...
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...
A Rowing Boat
STUDENTS RESCUED Clovelly, Devon. At 3.50 p.m. on yth May, 1964, the life-boat coxswain reported that two students on holiday had taken a hired rowing boat westward beyond Gallantry Bower. As they would have been unable to return against the...
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...