LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy from a Whitley Bomber
OCTOBER 11TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 9.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a rubber dinghy, with two men on board, was in the sea eleven miles E.S.E. of Skegness. A strong northerly wind was...
Olinka
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...
Lochgoil
OCT. 6TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a steamer of...
CREWS HEAD INLAND
Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, {Deluding the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 308 Life-boat Stations...
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Television Appeal
ON Sunday, the 19th of February, 1961, the first television appeal on behalf of the life-boat service was broadcast by the B.B.C. The appeal to viewers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was made by Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas. That to...
Category: Advertisement
Entertainment of Gold Medallists and Crews
APART from the inspection of the Life-boats on the Thames and the visit to Fulham, everything was done by the Institution, with much generous help from others, to give the British and foreign Life-boatmen a good time while they were in...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
A Pinnace (1)
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...