LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A dismasted yacht being seen off the North Foreland while a moderate gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 5th June, the Life-boat Frances Forbet Barton was launched at 5 P.M., and on reaching the vessel found she was the yawl...
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Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Around the world More than 200 invited guests supported the annual autumn party organised by Woodbridge and District branch which was held at Woodbridge School on Saturday 24 November.
After enjoying refreshments they...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st October, 1954 - 78,940 Notes of the Quarter THE cold, wet summer of 1954 was a most...
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Life-Boat Stands By During Helicopter Rescue of Man Injured By Falling Over Cliff While Trying to Save a Boy
Life-Boat Stands By During Helicopter Rescue of Man Injured By Falling Over Cliff While Trying To Save A Boy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March
Launches 33 Lives rescued 136 MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life...
Category: Services
Beaulieu
Margate, Kent.—At 1.15 i n the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1948, a tug with a yacht in tow was seen five miles to the northward, making little headway, and at 2.30 the coastguard telephoned that she appeared to have broken down and was...
Swift
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
The Converted Naval Steam Launch Nasus
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 10th of September, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht appeared to have broken down and was drifting to the northward, but the coastguard stated that she was...