LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
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APRIL 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Two airmen had been reported to have baled out over the sea, but later the report was found to be untrue. - Rewards, £4 18s. 9d..
Services by Shore-Boats (10)
BURRAFIRTH, LERWICK, SHETLANDS. At 1.52 P.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the coastguard asked the Lighthouse Shore Station at Burrafirth to send its boat to pick up the crew of the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, which had been sunk by enemy...
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Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1977
Aberdovey, Gwynedd September 3, 19 and October 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd September 9, 10, 23, October 16 and November 26 Aldeburgh, Suffolk October 23 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 4 and 16 Atlantic College,...
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Clacton from Page 119
raised £630 to pay for the radio in the ILB. Clacton Round Table presented £100. St Osyth Training College gave the proceeds of its annual rag week, £300. Clacton Operatic Society presented £150. Tollesbury Sailing Club...
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John Batchelor
John Batchelor (above), a member of Mudeford lifeboat crew runs the fresh fish stall on the quayside and has produced a fish cookbook to raise funds for the station. Mr Batchelor retires from active lifeboat duty in four years time and it is... - View image in PDF
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Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 523 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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The Replica 12th Century Long Boat Aileach
Longboat's steering fails 40 miles north of Cape WrathSome of the latest technology came to the aid of some of the earliest when Stromness lifeboat station's relief Arun class Newsbuoy was launched to the aid of a replica 12th...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd June, 1870. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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