LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) a Guess-The-Weight Competition Run By Ley Tonstone Branch at a Hospital Fete Last Summer Raised £30 for the Lifeboat Service 'struggling'' to Lift the Bag (It Weig
(Below) A guess-the-weight competition run by Ley tonstone branch at a hospital fete last summer raised £30 for the lifeboat service. 'Struggling'' to lift the bag (it weighed 6 Ib) are two branch members, W. H. A.View image in PDF
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PEER KILLED WHEN HELICOPTER CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 16th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a report had been received from R.N.A.S. Brawdy that a Whirlwind...
A Fine Northumbrian Rescue
THE fierce gales which are experienced j on the Northumbrian coast from time to i time cause a large number of casualties, ! and the brave Life-boatmen at Holy i Island have a fine list of rescues | standing to their credit. j Among them,...
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Scarborough Tragedy
ON the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while Scarborough fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.40 the Scarborough life-boat E.C.J.R., a 35-feet 6-inches selfrighting boat, was launched to escort them...
Category: Services
Lecko
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 24th of September, 1956, South Gare coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was aground near the look-out. She was not in any immediate danger. At 10.30 the life- boat John and Lucy...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...
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H.M.S. Witherington (1)
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
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Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey him to Inishere to attend a patient believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 the...
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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The Life-Boat Service In 1930
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533 The Life-boat Service in 1930.
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