LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch and Tehtar and Essex Pride
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex- At 11.26 a.m.
on 27th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch appeared to be in trouble.
There was a strong gale from the west south...
A Rowing Boat
THREE MEN LANDED FROM ROWING BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1962, news was received that a man in a canoe had left Llandudno at 9.15 that morning and had not returned. A fresh south-east wind...
From angling to sinking
When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
Category: Articles
Mr. Smith's Club, Brazil Street, Manchester, Held a Life-Boat Evening Recently and These Girls(Above), Helped to Make the Occasion a Memorable One. Proceeds Were Given to the R.N.L.I. on the Ri
Mr. Smith's Club, Brazil Street, Manchester, held a life-boat evening recently and these girls(above), helped to make the occasion a memorable one. Proceeds were given to the R.N.L.I. On the right is Mrs. Ruth Manrot who was selected as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Feistein
Walmer, Kent.—At 11.56 on the night of the 18th of October, 1954, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground two and a half miles east of the coastguard sta- tion and had signalled SOS. At 12.10 early on the 19th the...
The Loss of a Life-Boatman on the Mersey
FOR the past four years no Life-boatman has lost his life at sea. When it is remembered that in that time 1,507 lives have been rescued from shipwreck, and that altogether, on service and exer- cise, between 40,000 and 50,000 men were afloat...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
A Small Sailing Boat
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—A small sailing boat, north of the Middle Mouse and drifting to sea, was seen by the coastguard, on the afternoon of the 26th August signalling for assistance. A message was at once sent to the Life-boat Station, and at 4...
A Fishing Coble
27th No- vember. A fishing coble was in distress, but reached harbour unaided.
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