LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Long road home
St Bees lifeboat crew faced gale-force winds, heavy rain, rough seas and poor visibility on 1 November 2010 while searching for a man 11 miles from the station. Coastguards recovered the man but the weather had got so bad it wasn’t safe to...
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Life-Boat Services In 1896
Lives saved.
Adeline, cutter, of Great Yar- mouth 1 Agder, barque, of Frederickstadt 4 Aire, schooner, of Goole 4 Aldafro«,of Aberporth—landed 2.
Albert, steam-tug, of Chester— rendered...
Category: Services
H.M. Drifter Silver Seas
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.5 in the morning the naval control at Southend reported that H.M.
drifter Silver Seas had been abandoned and was adrift to the west side of Southend pier.
What did you learn at school today?
Some brave RNLI volunteers face 10m waves and force 9 gales; others find themselves at the mercy of 30 excitable 5-year-olds. So how do we help save lives from the relative safety of the...
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A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
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On His Retirement After 30 Years Service As Honorary Treasurer First at Exeter and Then Exmouth Leslie Aplin Was Presented With a Clock from Exmouth Branch By Hono
On his retirement after 30 years service as honorary treasurer, first at Exeter and then Exmouth, Leslie Aplin was presented with a clock from Exmouth branch by honorary secretary Len Smith (I.) and an inscribed shield by John Atterton (r.),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Acting Coxswain James Dougal from Eyemouth and Two of the Divers Involved In His Medal-Winning Service Were Re-United at the Annual Meetings James Dougal I
Acting Coxswain James Dougal from Eyemouth and two of the divers involved in his medal-winning service were re-united at the Annual Meetings. James Dougal is pictured (centre) with Elizabeth Mayer and Steven Pert/grew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Life-Boatman and Coastguard In Support
The new coat oi arms of Ramsgate, where the life-boat station has rescued 1,365 lives'since 1865. - View image in PDF
(Reproduced by courtesy of the Borough of Ramsgate.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs