LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harwich's New Atlantic 21 Dedicated on Saturday May 27 By the Reverend J Chelton the Branch Padre Was Provided By Dudley Hunt; Mr and Mrs R Aitken Member
Harwich's new Atlantic 21, dedicated on Saturday May 27 by the Reverend J. Chelton, the branch padre, was provided by Dudley Hunt; Mr and Mrs R. Aitken, members of the family, were present. Also present were members of Harwich and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snow Bound.
Towards the end of January, after the heaviest fall of snow for many years, the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire, was cut off by land from the rest of the world. Roads and railways were blocked; the telephone wires were down; but the sea...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (9)
MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...
The Boy Was Landed on the Other Side of the Cove Where There Was a Path (Right)
The boy was landed on the other side of the cove, where there was a path (right), and handed over to waiting police and ambulance men; the lifeboat then returned to the rock base to take off two fire- men who had been helping the youth and... - View image in PDF
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June
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The life-boat made for the position given, W. by S. 1/4S., 36 1/4 miles from Porthdinllaen Point. It was very difficult to see in the continuous rain and, when at midnight the life-boat...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (59)
APRIL 18TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea between Combe Martin and Lynton, and one of the crew was believed to have baled out, but nothing was found, and it was learnt later that...
Greek Award to Selsey
THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Awards
Antelope
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 4.11 p.m.
on 10th October, 1969, it was learnt that a fishing boat needed assistance three quarters of a mile west north west of Tol Pedn. At 4.21 the lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched. It was...
The Difficulties of the Land
Launching the Clovelly life-boat. - View image in PDF
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Norman Clark (1902-1920) Perhaps One of the Best Loved of North Berwick's Pulling and Sailing Lifeboats on Winter Service (Left) Here Can Be Seen Something of the Wild F
Norman Clark (1902-1920), perhaps one of the best loved of North Berwick's pulling ami sailing lifeboats, on winter service (left). Here can be seen something of the wild fury of which the sea is capable on this rockv shore.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs