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An Aeroplane (23)
JULY 14TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £5 1s..
An Aeroplane (23)
MARCH 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 11.15 in the morning Croyde coastguard reported to Appledore that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea. The same information was given to Ilfracombe by the resident naval officer. The...
Scarborough August 1 1987:
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RFD Company Ltd
Z-BOATS to the rescue.
Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant, it...
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Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of the late Coxswain Angus McPhail, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who died on 29th June last, at the age of sixty, after a distinguished career in the life-boat.
He was coxswain for thirteen years...
Category: Articles
Sunbeam Chaser
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
Castle Ashby Naturals
EXCLUSIVE! Special Offer To readers of this magazine The aim of Castle Ashby Naturals is to provide the highest quality natural skincare products based on time tested traditional ingredients.
No animals have suffered in the...
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Contents
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
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An Aeroplane (29)
Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..