LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...
Category: Articles
TOUCH AND GO
When a cargo ship lost power and started drifting towards danger, two lifeboat crews headed out on a rescue that would test their endurance to the limit ‘It’s an unusual coincidence,' says Padstow Mechanic Mike England, ‘that for the...
Category: Articles
Mr Walter Jones a Retired Miner of Nottingham Was So Impressed By the Courage of Lifeboatmen He Saved a Little Each Week from His Pension to Leave to the Bridlington
Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson of Wells Received the Thanks of the R.N.L.I, Inscribed on Vellum for Searching for a Crashed Lancaster Bomber Off the Norfolk Coast on 14Th July, 1942, A
The late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson of Wells received the thanks of the R.N.L.I, inscribed on vellum for searching for a crashed Lancaster bomber off the Norfolk coast on 14th July, 1942, and (below) a reproduction of the painting by L.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Number: a Tug and a Grimsby Fishing Vessel Were In Collision Near Bull Light on the Morning of April 1 Being Informed That There Were People In the Sea Number Lifeboat T
Number: A tug and a Grimsby fishing vessel were in collision near Bull Light on the morning of April 1.
Being informed that there were people in the sea, Number lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson City of Bradford III,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spirit of Tayside Broughty Ferry's Arun Stands By the Tug Defiant While a Helicopter from Raf Leuchars Prepares to Take Off the Three-Man Crew (Photo Courtesy Capt I
Spirit of Tayside, Broughty Ferry's Arun, stands by the tug Defiant while a helicopter from RAF Leuchars prepares to take off the three-man crew. (Photo courtesy Capt. I. Fyffe). - View image in PDF
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Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
Category: Articles
Ballyclare
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the evening of the 30th of May, 1956, the life-boat motor mechanic heard on his private radio that the coaster Bally- clare was ashore on Patterson's Rock.
Although no confirmation...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at...
Category: Services
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