LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (3)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Five men from an aeroplane were adrift in a rubber dinghy, but they were picked up by a steamer. - Rewards, £35 13s..
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1864. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
News and Views
Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.
The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...
Category: Articles
An Aircraft
Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
Gently Does It
GENTLY DOES IT A crash between a personal watercraft and a powerboat left a 16-year-old boy in agony, needing urgent but careful attention Aberdovey lifeboat crew were just back from a call out to a kitesurfer when they were asked by radio...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (165)
OCTOBER 29TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea off Holland Haven, and a man was reported to be in the water, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 19s..
An Aeroplane (108)
JULY 21ST. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in the sea and the pilot had baled out, but he was picked up dead by a government launch. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..
The Fundraisers
Five men in a boat Tomost people, the idea of rowing across the Irish Sea is incomprehensible, and it was with a degree of trepidation that five amateurs set out at 0330 on Saturday 27 May from Holyhead to tackle the feat and raise money for...
Category: Articles
Grace Paterson Ritchie Her Inflatable Dinghy In Company on Passage Through West Man Sound Photographs By Courtesy of Lieut-Commander P E C Pickles
Grace Paterson Ritchie, her inflatable dinghy in company, on passage through West man Sound. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Lieut.-Commander P. E. C. Pickles.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Dr Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury and His Wife Paid An Informal Visit to Whitstable Ilb Station on July 27 They Went Out In the Atlantic 21 and His Gr
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs