LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Persaro II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.31 on the evening of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that an open boat with an out- board motor had broken down and was drifting about two miles off...
Fluminense
CABIN CRUISER TOWED OFF SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.56 on the night of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small craft was reported to be aground on the Sunk Sands near No. 6 Barrow West buoy and that she...
Torquay Star
SHARK FISHERS TOWED HOME Torbay, Devon. At 6.55 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Brixham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel was flashing the international distress signal about three and a...
The Keel Boats Endeavour, Queen Venture and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Tall ships, long weekend
Belfast had its very own RNLI lifeboat station for a long weekend in July when Bangor and Red Bay volunteers provided extra rescue cover for the Tall Ships Race. Around 750,000 visitors poured into the city for the 4-day event and our...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Man
LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
Category: Poetry
Lifeboat People
WHEN FISHERMAN John Nudds of Wells, Norfolk, and his crew, Alfred Smith and Martin Frary, were presented with letters of commendation by the RNLI for rescuing the lives of two yachtsmen in difficulties last June, their 'local', the...
Category: Articles
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Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
Key RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS
A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal boat. However the cost of owning one in their retirement seemed...
Category: Advertisement
Ada Mary
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.45 on the night of the 20th of November, 1950, a resident of Leigh - on - Sea reported that red rockets had been seen off Leigh. At 11.8 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea...