LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...

A Nimrod jet aircraft of No. 201 Squadron,R.A.F. Strike Command, committed the ashes of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., to the sea in Alum...

IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.

Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.

Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...

NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that he was keeping under observation a coaster on the east side of the River Wyre one and a half miles from the coastguard...

The south of England saw some gorgeous weather in June and early July, with crowds flocking to the Dorset coast. But it wasn’t fun in the sun for everyone, as RNLI lifeguards found while patrolling the beaches

The unbroken...

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