LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Covering the Atlantic Coast
The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...
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An Aeroplane (21)
JULY 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
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Pages 20-21: a complex training exercise underway, calling on the skills and fitness of all the crew Photo: Mark Passmore
Pages 20-21: A complex training exercise underway, calling on the skills and fitness of all the crew Photo: Mark Passmore. - View image in PDF
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People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
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Chart Key
1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.
2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.
3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.
Category: Charts
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (3)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
Fly, of Whitby
On the night of the 2nd November, at 10 P.M., blowing a heavy gale from the north, signals of distress were seen from Lowestoft: the life-boat was at once launched through a heavy surf, and pro- ceeded under sail to the spot, where the...
None (2)
Anger over hoax call Police and Coastguards hit out at a hoax caller after a long sea and air search of Cleethorpes seafront found nothing.
The operation was launched in bitter weather on the night of 25 February after...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...
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