LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Eight-feet Flatbottomed Punt
MARCH 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported information received from Lancing that a small boat had been seen about three miles to the south-south-west.
The motor life-boat Rosa...
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1898.
Sir EDWARD BIBKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (111)
AU G U S T 3 1 S T . - F L A M B O R O U G H , YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found.
Later it was learned that the crew of four had already been picked up by another vessel. - Rewards,...
Shannon on station
The Shannon class – a new generation of all-weather lifeboat – is now ready to rescue after the first station lifeboat went on service at Dungeness, Kent.
The lifeboat, designed in-house by RNLI naval architects, harnesses...
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An Aeroplane (6)
JANUARY 7TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had been reported in the sea, but her crew of three had been rescued by a fishing boat before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £13 2s.
(See...
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 30th April, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the Chair.
Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Engineer Vice- Admiral Sir GEORGE G. GOODWIN,...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 1 3TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of...
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