LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue
In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
Category: Contents
RESCUE
HUMPBACK WHALE FREED
DART/SALCOMBE | 22 MARCH
RNLI crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out – this time it was an 8m humpback whale trapped
n fishing gear. The lifeboats helped...
Category: Articles
Saga
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Service and the War
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...
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Book Reviews
Anyone interested in the organization of a major charity will find Two Ears of Corn by Mervyn Jones (Hodder and Stoughton, 2i/-) a stimulating work.
This is the story of the growth of Oxfam from an inaugural meeting held by...
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Castle Moil
Cromarty.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1951, the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat was aground on the West Riff Sand- bank near Rosemarkie. At 10.17 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station,...
First Service of Aberdeen's New Lifeboat the 54' Arun Bp Forties on July 28 Was to Peterhead Fishing Boat Westerdale Which Reported Flooding In Her Engine Room Bp
. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bermudan Sloop Calcutta Princess
Snatched from rocks A MAYDAY CALL received from the 17' bermudan sloop Calcutta Princess was reported by Trevose Head Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 1709 on Sunday July 17, 1977. The yacht, a quarter...
William John Arthur,
OCTOBER 1997 William John Arthur, former Falmouth mechanic. Mr Arthur's RNLI service spanned over 43 years - 20 years as a crew member on the Cadgwith rowing and sailing lifeboat, 12 years as mechanic at Cadgwith (at the outbreak of WW2)...
Category: Obituaries
A Surf Ski
Surf ski rider HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Agnes ILB station at 1626 on Sunday, July 17, 1977, that a surf ski rider was in difficulties off Porthtowan, about 3'/4 miles south west from St Agnes. The DLA...