LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fowey, Cornwall.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1956, the Polruan coastguard reported white flares two to three miles south-west- by-west of the coastguard station.
At 9.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out....
Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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CAPSIZE IN THE THAMES
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
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Torbay: the Crew from the Cargo Vessel Majorca Are Put Ashore at Brixham
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1898
Lives 1898. saved.
Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...
Category: Services
Capture An Image Like This One of Fishguards Trent By Rick Tomlmson
Capture an image tike this one of Fishguards Trent by Rick Tomlmson and you should be in with a good chance!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award for Bravest Life-Saving Act In 1956
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.
Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...
Category: Awards
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (9)
OCTOBER
Launches 107. Lives rescued 107.
OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying...
Category: Services
When Mrs Anne Armstrong Former American Ambassador to Britain Visited Plymouth Lifeboat Station In February Coxswain John Dare Welcomed Her Aboard the 44'
When Mrs Anne Armstrong, former American Ambassador to Britain, visited Plymouth lifeboat station in February, Coxswain John Dare welcomed her aboard the 44' Waveney lifebout Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II with a yellow rose posy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
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