LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus on . . . Salcombe
The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Two girls of Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Rosetta Birkbeck and Gillian Foot, enjoy collecting for the R.N.L.I. Late last year they sent £33 14s. 4d., and explained:' We have made the collection in several different ways. Six...
Category: Donations
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...
Category: Awards
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...
Zona, Pisces
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
S.M.126
OCTOBER 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat S.M.126, with a crew of three, had broken down one mile to the south-west and needed help. The weather was...
Offshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1976
Aberdeen, Grampian October 1.
Angle, Dyfed November 22 and 26.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow September 11.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 20 and November 23.
Barmouth, Gwynedd...
Category: Services
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In the coming 12 months we'll be asking supporters like you if you're happy for us to stay in touch- and how you'd prefer to hear from us.
We've been reviewing the way we communicate with supporters for...
Category: Articles
Classic Wave
It was a calm September afternoon for a yacht and her crew - until sudden engine trouble combined with a turning tide and a change in the weatherAs the yacht Classic Wave passed between the Isles of Kerrera and Bach off Oban, Argyll, her...
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water. Second Article
IN our last Number we published some remarks on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, embodying the substance of inquiries made on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, together with our own comments on the same...
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