LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
After the Opening of Troon Marina Last Autumn Troon's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Connel Elizabeth Cargill Took Part In a Combined Exercise With a Sea King Helicopter Fro
After the opening of Troon Marina last autumn, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Connel Elizabeth Cargill took part in a combined exercise with a Sea King helicopter from 819 Squadron, HMS Gannet. photograph by courtesy of HMS... - View image in PDF
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(Right) the Benevolents a Group of Men from Easingwold Yorkshire Have Raised Funds for the Rnli Since 1970 Last November a Cheque for £30140 Proceeds of a Spo
(Right) The Benevolents, a group of men from Easingwold, Yorkshire, have raised funds for the RNLI since 1970. Last November a cheque for £301.40, proceeds of a sponsored walk, and a donation of £50 towards amenities for Humber... - View image in PDF
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A Cheese and Wine Party Organised By South London District Office Together With Eltham Ladies' Guild at the Royal Naval College Greenwich Last November Made a Profit
A cheese and wine party organised by South London District Office together with Eltham ladies' guild at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, last November, made a profit of £905. The photograph shows part of the abundant raffle and... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PALLING.—A new 12-oared life-boat has been placed at Palling, on the Norfolk Coast, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of a smaller one previously there.
The cost of this boat and her carriage, together with a...
Category: Articles
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
Ingrid II and Thelas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Services by Shore-Boats (1)
BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. On the 2nd January, 1939, the crew of four of the motor trawler Yankee Girl were rescued by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £2 10s., with £3 for loss of fishing, and 2s. 6d. for fuel used, together with a...
Category: Services
Centenary of the Boulogne Life-Boat Society
By Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.founder, Sir William thus a few months THE Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer was founded in August, 1825, by the joint efforts of two members...
Category: Articles
Halcyon, and the Barges Tintara and Portlight
NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....
Sweet William By Rosemary Whitten
A MARATHON 278-MILE DONKEY TROT FROM ST IVES TO LONDON 'Hey, what's that Freisian donkey doing staked out on your grass?' The cheerful farmer's voice stopped the conversation in the comfortable bar of The White Hart,...
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