LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
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The Fundraisers
Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...
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James Dougal Has Been Assistant Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic of Eyemouth
James Dougal has been assistant second coxswain/ assistant mechanic of Eyemouth lifeboat since 1991. He joined the crew in 1972 and served as assistant mechanic from 1982 until taking up his present position.
A collective... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924 - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Close Shave!
A close shave! Councillor Alun Roberts surrendered his 22-year-old beard in aid of the RNLl and raised £244 for the Penarth branch. He is seen being shaved bv hairdresser Alan Jones. Among the witnesses were deputy launching authority... - View image in PDF
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Emblem, Times and Delembra
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE —It having been reported that some of the boats engaged in cockle-fishing were in a dangerous position on the West Hoyle bank on the 2nd May, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 4.25 P.M., and in two trips...
Islay Lifeboat Gets All the Votes: October 10 1974 2345 Assistant Coxswain Alastair Campbell and Crew Deliver Colonsay and Jura Ballot Boxes for the Second Time In the Li
Islay lifeboat gets all the votes: October 10, 1974, 2345. Assistant Coxswain Alastair Campbell and crew deliver Colonsay and Jura ballot boxes for the second time in the lifeboat service's 50th Anniversary year after a four-hour night... - View image in PDF
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A Glider
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
Duchess, a Schooner, Julia, Cornucopia, et al
At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...
Ninety-Three Lives Rescued from a White Star Vessel
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
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