LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ALL HANDS TO THE PUMP
With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard
The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...
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Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Miss Ann, of Paignton
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
After Father Christmas Had Given the Presents
After Father Christmas Had Given The Presents. - View image in PDF
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Bottom Left: Yes. They Are Good Friends
Bojjom left: Yes. they are good friends but that has nothing to do with this manoeuvre!. - View image in PDF
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By Courtesy of Francois Martin and League of Red Cross Societies
Lieutenant David Stogdon, Staff Inspector (inshore rescue boats), seated by IRB engine during the relief operations in East Pakistan. With him (centre) is Mr. - View image in PDF
Chowdhury, Aga Khan Ranger Scout.. - View image in PDF
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(Above) Mrs Jacqueline Gurney Wife of John Gurney, the Secretary of the Equity and Law
(above) Mrs Jacqueline Gurney wife of John Gurney, the secretary of the Equity and Law Social Club, names the new relief fleet D class lifeboat AXA Life Inshorer. Staff officer (operations) Michael Pennell keeps a wary eye on the proceedings... - View image in PDF
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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
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The Rowing Boats Ann and Flying Dutchman
CREWS RESCUED FROM TWO ROWING BOATS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.40 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the rowing boats Ann and Flying Dutchman of Benllech were in distress five miles south...
Lady Olwen Carey Evans
Lady Olwen Carey Evans, DBE, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president and chairman of South Caernarvonshire ladies' guild, surrounded by her family on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday; the card she is holding is... - View image in PDF
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