LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Battle in the bay
When a teenage boy found himself caught in a tidal backwash, his friends watched in horror – could anyone reach him before it was too late?
On 7 September the 13-year-old was playing with his...
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Atlantic 21 Blue Peter II With Peter Purves on Board Launches Into the Menai Straits
Atlantic 21 Blue Peter II, with Peter Purves on board, launches into the Menai Straits.. - View image in PDF
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Robert Norgren Chief Executive of the British Sub Aqua Club Christens Harwich's New Atlantic 21
Robert Norgren Chief Executive of the British Sub Aqua Club Christens Harwich's New Atlantic 21. - View image in PDF
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Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
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Integrity
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.38 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore on the south side of the harbour. The boat was burning red flares, and at 9.48 the life-boat Edzcard...
Burton-On-Trent September 27 1986:
Burton-on-Trent, September 27, 1986: specially brewed commemorative beer was the unusual souvenir item on sale when Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Burton Brewer, was handed over to the station in Burton-on-Trent. The Midlands... - View image in PDF
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The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Llandaff Blesses Barry Dock's Two Lifeboats the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley During a Service of Re-Dedication and Thank
The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Llandaff blesses Barry Dock's two lifeboats, the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley during a service of re-dedication and thanksgiving on Sunday, August 22, 1976, to commemorate the... - View image in PDF
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(Right) a Visit to St.Mary's Lifeboat Station While Holidaying In the Scil/Y Isles 22 Years Ago Began a Lifelong Interest In Lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters Since The
(Right) A visit to St Mary's lifeboat station while holidaying in the Scil/y Isles 22 years ago began a lifelong interest in lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters. Since then, they and their children, Carolyn, Stephen and David, have... - View image in PDF
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Award for Licensee of Inn
Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
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The Isle of Wight Packet-Boat Prince of Wales
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...