LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In 1961
Date Station 1961 Jan. 1 Weymouth 4 Kirkcudbright 4 Penlee 5 Troon 6 Scarborough 6 Troon ..
„ 6 Weymouth ,, 6 Dover 6 Whitby „ 7 Maltaig 9 Wick ,, 11 Lerwick 12 Padstow No. 1 12 Arklow 13...
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Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boatmen
THE late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., who had been accustomed during the latter part of his life to spend a portion of each year at Ramsgate, had at different times given a dinner to the crew of the Life-boat, to show his appreciation of...
Category: Articles
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Wayne (left) And Ken Answered The Call
wayne (left) and Ken answered the call Photo: Ken Finlay, Southside People. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book reviews
Survival skills, intrepid explorations and coastal cruises – get ready for an adventure this spring
The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 18th day of March 1879, his Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
Don Bosco
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morning of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler, later identified as the Belgian trawler Don Bosco, had her engine room on fire, and...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
Category: Services
(Above) of the £6000 Raised By Salcombe and Hope Branch No Less Than £2066 Resulted from the Efforts of the Lifeboat Crew and Their Wives Money Was Raised By Dance
(Above) Of the £6,000 raised by Salcombe and Hope branch, no less than £2,066 resulted from the efforts of the lifeboat crew and their wives. Money was raised by dances and other functions, but a large proportion came from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs