LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above: the Drummer Boy
Above: The drummer boy would walk through the village to alert the crew when they were needed for a rescue. - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30...
Category: Services
Two Meteor Jet Aeroplanes
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
When the Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Institution Visited Workington Last Year He Met Members of the Crew and Also Officers and Members of Both Workin
When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
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Back on Station - a Century Late!
A century after the old Boarhills private lifeboat fell into disuse the station was visited by Broughty Ferry's Arun and D class lifeboats.
The Arun's Y-boat is pictured in the entrance to the old boathouse - no... - View image in PDF
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October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
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Boy Arthur
At 6.15 P.M.
on the 4th October, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Carry, that a small boat was driving south in front of the town with two persons on board. As a fresh easterly wind was blowing...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently stationed a life-boat at Blakeney, at the north extremity of Norfolk, at which place a crew of fishermen perished last year in attempting to rescue a shipwrecked crew. This...
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The Dutch Medina Lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (Below) Which Visited Poole In Early June Demonstrates the Exceptional Manoeuvrability of Her Jet Propulsion Off the Shingle Bank
The Dutch Medina lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (below), which visited Poole in early June, demonstrates the exceptional manoeuvrability of her jet propulsion off the Shingle Bank.. - View image in PDF
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