LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Week's Good Cause By Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...
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A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club Took Part In An Underwater Sponsored 'Fin' Along the 2 Lh Mile Coronation Channel—A Flood Relief Channel In Spalding the 'Fin' Was Swum In Darkness St
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club took part in an underwater sponsored 'fin' along the 2 lh mile Coronation Channel—a flood relief channel in Spalding. The 'fin' was swum in darkness, starting at 7pm, and over £100... - View image in PDF
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Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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Water Baby
Disabled yacht A YACHT AT ANCHOR near Lune No 1 Buoy, Morecambe Bay, but having a rough time was reported to Fleetwood Coastguard by an auxiliary coastguard at Knott End at 1525 on Wednesday September 10, 1980. It was learned that the yacht...
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FELL ON ROCKS Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.6 p.m. on igth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the rocks at the Dhoon. The lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station,...
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Clovelly, Devon. At 6.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, a local fisherman called attention to the fact that a small motor boat, which had left the harbour on a routine visit to visit lobster pots, was no longer in sight. A...
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1983
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 10 and April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: April 20, May 14,15 (three times) and 17 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft din Rother...
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Marie Louise
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.
At 4.20...