LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. A fire had been seen on Copeland Island, but it was found to have been lit by rabbit trappers to burn rubbish. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
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FEBRUARY 17TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. Flashing lights had been seen at irregular intervals, but no sign of any vessel in need of help was found, although the coxswain took the life-boat in right under the cliffs, and among the sea defences,...
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Humber, Yorkshire - At 1.50 p.m.
on 30th April, 1966, a motorist told the coxswain superintendent that a small aircraft had crashed into the sea about two miles north of Spurn. There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 2.1 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht in the Needles channel. At 2.10 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding....
Brave Enough Stand Up In Front of a Class of 14-Year-Olds
All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Important Question of Electrical Communication on the Coast. (From "The Times," January 12, 1892.)
WHEN the Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION brings the present lamentable state of our coast communications under the notice of Parliament next Session, it is to be hoped that the Government will either accept Ms proposals...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (12)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
An Aeroplane (12)
FEBRUARY 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 8s. 6d..
Left: Llandudno's 12M Mersey Class Lifeboat
Left: Llandudno's 12m Mersey class lifeboat needs the powerful Tallus Caterpillar tractor for launch and recovery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs