LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Change to Ultra High Frequency
EFFICIENT means of communication at sea between life-boats and aircraft have been of growing importance in recent years. Particularly vital is the link be- tween life-boats and helicopters, for the number of services in which life- boats and...
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Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
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Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
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Record Breakers! Smiles All Round from Members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club
Record breakers! Smiles all round from members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club who returned in triumph after setting new endurance records with their radio-controlled craft during a world distance attempt at Stevenage, which was organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats
Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...
Category: Services
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
TRAPPED IN AN INFERNO
EASTBOURNE | 22 MARCH
Two men in Eastbourne had a lucky escape when their motor cruiser went up in flames. Local fishermen pulled them to safety and used the cruiser’s anchor to prevent it from drifting towards the pier. There was...
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Almost Twenty Years of Arun Development the Prototype Arun (1971) Shows the High Freeboard and Original Wheelhouse While the Final Boat Duke of Atholl
Almost twenty years of Arun development. The prototype Arun (1971) shows the high freeboard and original wheelhouse. - View image in PDF
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July
Launches 27. Lives rescued 15.
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in...
Category: Services
'Such an incredible charity'
Friends and family of Nick and Emily Milligan – the father and daughter who died tragically in a speedboat accident in the Padstow Estuary in May 2013 – have cycled from Cornwall to London to raise over £150,000 for the...
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