LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Acting Coxswain:
Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 21st October, 1926.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected Brig.-Gen, Noel M. Lake, C.B., an Honorary life-Governor of the Institution.
Reported the resignation from...
Category: Committee
The Screw Steamer Tuskar, of Glasgow
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 4th ofNovember, 1957, the skipper of the large keel boat Brilliant Star reported on returning to harbour that the weather was worsening rapidly and the fishing coble Premier...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 17th of Febru- ary, 1958, the coastguard and honorary secretary told the coxswain that three Whitby fishing boats were at sea and that because conditions were bad they would probably...
At Exmouth on 16Th May, 1970, the 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Life-Boat City of Birmingham,
At Exmouth on 16th May, 1970, the 48-foot 6-inch Solent type life-boat City of Birmingham, paid for by contributions by the citizens of Birmingham, was named by the Deputy Mayor of Birmingham (Aid. Charles V. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tubbie Raffle
Soft toy replicas of TV's lovable Teletubbies have been quickly selling out in shops everywhere.
Ronald Benzie, owner of Exmouth store Thomas Tucker's, decided to keep two back to raffle for lifeboat funds and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mannofield
The steam- trawler Mannofield, of Aberdeen, whilst bound to Aberdeen with a cargo, was obliged to anchor in Dunnet Bay owing to a shortage of coal. A heavy gale had prevailed for three days, and the sea was also heavy, and as the vessel was...