LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (62)
AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.
wind. The motor...
An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
Tamworth Guild Have Held Two 'Knit-Ins' at the Home of Their Chairman Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews More Than £200 Was Raised on Each Occasion Photograph By Courtes
Tamworth guild have held two 'knit-ins' at the home of their chairman, Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews. More than £.200 was raised on each occasion. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. Walker.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE 18-HOUR RESCUE MISSION
When Islay lifeboat crew launched to a yachtsman in treacherous seas and force 11 winds, they couldn’t have known that their courage would result in a life saved that night – or a Medal for Gallantry
‘ My adrenaline...
Category: Articles
Travelscope
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All Travelscope cruise...
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Fendyke (1)
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
A Dinghy
LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...
South Coast Rescue Boat
THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.
Yarmouth's new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One day, two calls
26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...
Category: Articles
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries