LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Chinook Inflatable
Missing divers found It was a family affair at Lyme Regis earlier this year when a lifeboat crew member's father and brother were instrumental in saving the lives of two divers.
On the afternoon of 9 May, three skin...
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A Steamer (24)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
An Aeroplane (24)
JULY 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and was signalled by an R.A.F. launch to return to her station. - Rewards, £11 5s..
The Royal Air Force Launch 1659
Holyhead, Anglesey-At 7.16 p.m.
on 26th January, 1970, red flares were reported about five miles south west of the South Stack lighthouse.
The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a...
Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...
The Royal Air Force Launch No. 1653
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.1 on the afternoon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal Air Force launch No. 1653 had broken down off Jurby Head. At 4.15 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched...
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
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An Aeroplane (24)
MAY 3 l ST. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, three miles south-east of Ramsgate, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £12 18s..