LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
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Contessa and Lionheart
Two yachts aground BRADWELL COASTGUARD MOBILE was in the vicinity of Stansgate on the afternoon of Friday, May 20, keeping watch over a number of yachts off Osea Island, when, at 1723, a yacht was seen to be heading for the sand spit at the...
A Motor Launch and Tehtar and Essex Pride
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex- At 11.26 a.m.
on 27th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch appeared to be in trouble.
There was a strong gale from the west south...
Atmospheric Phenomena In 1880
THE Astronomer Royal (Sir George B. Airy) in liis recent report states—amongst other in- teresting subjects—that the mean temperature of 1880 was 49-4 deg., being O'l deg. above the average of the preceding 39 years. The highest...
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Shoreline
RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat funded by our Shoreline members which was stationed at Blyth from 1979 until last year, has now been transferred to Arbroath, on the east coast of Scotland; she was placed on service at...
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Bose
• When it was introduced, Sound & Vision said it delivered "possibly the best-reproduced sound many people have ever heard." • II can ivpUe an entire multi-component •Oeivn -.vvlein im ludinii t i n -...
Category: Advertisement
Skegness Life-Boat Puts Out to Search for Airman
Skegness Life-Boat Puts Out To Search For Airman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Building of Life-Boats
WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...
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Services of the Life-Boats In 1962
Services of the Life-boats in 1962 Date Station 1962 Jan. 1 Broughty Ferry „ 3 Southend-on-Sea „ 4 St. Ives „ 5 Howth..
„ 6 Galway Bay ..
„ 6 St. Mary's 8 Barry Dock ..
Category: Services
An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
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