LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (3)
Margate, Kent - At 6.36 p.m. on 16th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coswain that a small boat with two men on board was in difficulties one and a half miles off the coastguard lookout at Foreness.
In view of...
Four Inaugural Ceremonies. St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head
St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.
DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...
Category: Inaugurations
A Father's Advice
A LADY sending a donation from Brighton writes : " Reading your appeal in my paper last week made me remember words of my late father which he often spoke, when my brothers and myself were children: ' Never, never pass a life-boat...
Category: Donations
A Steamer (4)
JANUARY 26TH.. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, E S S E X . A s t e a m e r h a d b e e n r e p o r t e d ashore, but before the life-boat could reach her a signal was received that the steamer had refloated. When the life-boat returned she was one...
Gift from Tasmania
THE Institution has received a gift of £100 from Tasmania for the benefit of the life-boat station at Southend- on-Sea. The donor's aunt lived in Southend for many years and was a contributor to the branch..
Category: Donations
Right: the Rnli's Only Two Female Crew
Right: The RNLI's only two female crew members on lifeboats over ten metres are both to be found in Ireland. Ruth Lennon, pictured here goes out with the Donaghadee lifeboat, (she is the daughter of Coxswain William Lennon), and at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Classified
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Contact: Karen Heath, Jackson-Rudd &...
Category: Advertisement
A Dinghy (11)
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 11.54 a.m. on 3Oth July, 1967, it was learnt that two children in a yellow rubber dinghy were being swept out to sea from Whitesands.
The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12 o'clock...
A Dinghy (3)
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.16 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified that H.M.S. Plover had picked up a small dinghy with two people on board about five miles south-west of Beachy Head. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
None (8)
At 10.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, it was learned that two people were cutoff by the tide half a mile east of Splash point, Seaford. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 11.10 in a moderate westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was...