LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• The Flamborough Life-boats: A History of the Flamborough Stations, by Ralph S. Fawcett (Fawcett, 74 Lime Grove, Draycott, Derby, price 25p plus 5p postage) tells the story of one of Yorkshire's famous stations. Before 1871 there had,...
Category: Articles
Portsmouth - Langstone Harbour - D Class Loni Raglan
The Right Honourable The Lord Raglan names Portsmouth's new D class inflatable Lord Raglan.
Funds for the new lifeboat were raised by the landlord and customers of a pub of the same name.
Photo Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
Category: Services
Strong to save
Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
Category: Articles
Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
Category: Articles
Raymond Baxter Chairman of the Rnli Public Relations
Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, flanked by (I.) Mrs B. Robertson, chairman of the Walton and Frinton ladies' guild and (r.) Mrs Wilberforce, president, when he was chief guest and speaker at a dinner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (23)
JUNE 5TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 4s. 3d..
A Steamer (23)
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Flares had been reported, but thesteamer which was in distress got help from tugs. - Rewards, £15 6s..
Violet Stephenson, Seaflower and Golden Gleam
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 1.25 p.m. on 8th August, 1967, concern was felt for three cobles salmon fishing off Alnmouth in deteriorating weather conditions. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 2.10 in a moderate...
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