LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hongi
End of voyage A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC made a 999 call to the Police early on the morning of Saturday October 16, 1982, reporting a catamaran flashing a white light about 100 yards off Sidmouth Beach, 9Vz miles east north east of Exmouth...
Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker
It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...
Category: Articles
H.M Trawler Rutlandshire
DEC. 29TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the evening the signal station reported rockets east of Filey Brigg.
A N.N.W. wind was blowing, of gale force at times, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
Black Cat
TORQUAY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October it was reported that the fishing smack Black Cat, of Paignton, was hanging on to her nets, in great danger,' off that place, having been in that positionsince the commencement of the gale, which...
University Marine Ltd
Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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University Marine Ltd (Zodiac)
Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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'snowball' Parties
The following idea for 'snowball' dinner parties has come from the Younger Committee of the Central London Women's Committee: each member who is prepared to take part in this project gives 75p and invites a number of friends, who...
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Concerto and Martez (1)
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
A Rowing Boat
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
An Aeroplane (118)
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 5.25 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea near the East Last Buoy.
A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...