LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Armistice Day, 1931
LAST year, for the first time, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat was unable to take part in the Armistice Day Service on llth November. She was called out on service at 1.30 in the morning, and did not return for twelve hours.* In...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane
A PRIVATE AEROPLANE CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.15 on the night of the 15th of August, 1947, a resident telephoned that her husband had taken off in his aeroplane, with the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic as a...
News
Three Alderney lifeboat volunteers received top honours at the Daily Express Vodafone Life Savers Awards in October for their rescue of three people swept out to seaLifeboat Operations Manager David McAllister and Lifeboatmen Phil Murray and...
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On the Afternoon of July 9 a Giant Wave Washed Three Boys Off Sterlochy Rocks Immediately East of Findochty Harbour Two Were Pulled to Safety By Uwe Brandt An Oil Rig Worker Who Waded M
On the afternoon of July 9 a giant wave washed three boys off Sterlochy Rocks immediately east of Findochty Harbour. Two were pulled to safety by Uwe Brandt, an oil rig worker, who waded more than waist deep into the rough seas. Buckle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...
Category: Articles
A Plaque Is Presented to the Head Girl of Bvrehall High School By David Jones
A plaque is presented to the head girl of Bvrehall High School by David Jones, RO(NW), as thanks for help given to the Wigan branch during lifeboat day. The senior pupils raised £120 in house-to-house collections.
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Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (124)
AUGUST 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in flames six miles N.W. of Cromer, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 10s. 6d..
The Testing of a New Life-Boat
IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...
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Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
THE commerce of the world has increased, and is increasing so rapidly, and especially that of this great commercial nation, that the danger of collision between the innumerable ships that are passing and repassing each other, and crossing...
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Ian Brown,
NOVEMBER Ian Brown, former honorary treasurer of North Berwick station branch from 1971 to 1989..
Category: Obituaries