LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
This Raggedy Looking Band of Players
This raggedy looking band of players are the Syzewell Gap Mummers who perform their play in pubs in the Aldeburgh area each year over Christmas to raise money for the lifeboat service. In 1986 they collected £90 in just two nights from... - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy
Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, president of the RNLI, pictured at the helm of Tynemouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner during a tour of the north-east last November, photograph by courtesy of the Newcastle... - View image in PDF
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The Mayor of Dunstable
The Mayor of Dunstable was the guest of honour at the Dunstable branch pie, punch and carols event. The Toddington Band (pictured above) gave their time free of charge and the committee members made the pies and the punch. A most enjoyable... - View image in PDF
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This Is Red House Lugger In a Force 11 In the North Sea.
This is Red House Lugger in a Force 11 in the North Sea. - View image in PDF
It could have been you. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Foskett, Assistant Mechanic Lowestott lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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The Tyne (Right) and Mersey
self-righting calculations. This is one reason why the Arun and FAB 3 (left) have a proportionally greater superstructure volume than the smaller classes of lifeboat such as the Tyne (right) and Mersey - whose deck is low enough to recover... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 29TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
A party of soldiers had been fishing from some rocks, and a heavy sea had swept one of them away, but he was lost before the lifeboat could reach him. - Rewards, £9 18s..
A Motor Yacht
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A motor yacht had broken down in Dundrum Bay and had burnt flares, but she had been driven ashore before the lifeboat could reach her and her crew were able to land. The yacht was...
Carol Remembered
Left; Paul Douglas and daughters Sarah, Carra and Norma (with family pet Jake) are pictured presenting their cheque to Queensferry lifeboat crew members in memory of wife and mum Carol Anne Douglas Photo: Hamish Campbell. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..