LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Padstow's New Motor Life-Boat
Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.
THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.
The new...
Category: Inaugurations
Book Reviews
• The Inflatable Boat Book by Kendall McDonald and Malcolm Todd (Pelham Books, £3.75) provides a useful instruction reference for all inflatable boat users and covers a wide field in the present production lines available on the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, January 2nd, 1868. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Pamir
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1989 Continued from Previous Page
Continued from previous page Torbay, South Devon Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: March 22, 25, 27, April 2 (four times), 15, 19, May 3, 11, 12 and 20 D class: April 1 and May 28 Trearddur Bay, Gwynedd D class: March 27, May 13 and 28 Troon,...
Category: Services
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1870.
JAN....
Category: Articles
Lady Beatrice D
Margate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 7th of July, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small motor yacht was drifting out to sea near the feast Margate buoy. At 7.25 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
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Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...
An Aeroplane (7)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
The Sailing Boat Spray
Margate, Kent. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating near the West Pan Sand buoy and a request was made for the life-boat to recover it....