LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ploughing Matches With Vintage Tractors Was the Idea of Gordon Bell Honorary Secretary of Kilrea Branch Northern Ireland the First Held In 1976 Raised £104 But U
Ploughing matches with vintage tractors was the idea of Gordon Bell, honorary secretary of Kilrea branch, Northern Ireland. The first, held in 1976, raised £.104, but unfortunately heavy rain in 1977 meant very few spectators so that,... - View image in PDF
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Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
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Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill
Well's new Mersey class lifeboat Doris M Mann of Ampthill ties off the quayside during her naming ceremony. (Inset) HRH The Duchess of Kent waves a greeting as she takes a short trip on the lifeboat . (Photos Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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Cmdr F R H Swann O.B.E. R.N.V.R. (Second Left) a Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I. at Lowestoftin February 1968 During a Tour of Life-Boat Stations
Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (second left), a deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., at Lowestoftin February, 1968, during a tour of life-boat stations along the East Anglian coast. With him at the life-boat station (from left to right)... - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Watters, who has been coxswain of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat since 1934. In 1947 Cox- swain Watters was awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of seven men from the auxiliary motor vessel...
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The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Pictured With Life-Boat Officials and Members of the Crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967
The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., pictured with life-boat officials and members of the crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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Bertha
At about 4.20 P.M. on the 2nd September a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was ashore on the Gorton sands.
The steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 proceeded with all despatch to the sands, and found the...
Lamorna (1)
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
An Aeroplane (4)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...