LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Open Days 1982: Poole Headquarters and Depot
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 22 Friday July 23 Saturday July 24 10 am—6 pm 10 am—8 pm 10 am—6 pm WHEN THE ENGLISH TOURIST BOARD proclaimed 1982 Maritime England Year it was considered an appropriate occasion to open the...
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Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
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The S.S. Crawford Castle
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...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, at 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Services by Shore-Boats (8)
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 11 A.M on the 12th June, 1939, information was received that a girl had fallen down the cliffs at Haggington Beach, Hele Bay. A strong boat was borrowed for the job, and the Institution’s petrol was used.- Rewards...
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Attempted Rescue By Two Lytham Mechanics
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
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Worthing
Walkers line up in front of Worthing pier, ready to begin earning sponsorship for their local branch. The Mayor and Mayoress of Worthing, Harrv and Stella Yates, were among the participants and around £1,000 was raised as a result. This... - View image in PDF
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Two French Life-Boat Disasters
IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.
In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...
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An Aeroplane (25)
JUNE 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the men had been rescued by minesweepers and R.A.F. rescue boats. - Rewards, £26 14s. 3d..