LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosaline
Buckie, Banffshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel aground on the West Muck rocks, three quarters of a mile from Buckie harbour, was burning flares....
Shoreline Section
THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
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Carried out to sea IN THE EARLY HOURS of Thursday August 14, 1980, a 999 call to Great Yarmouth Coastguard reported a woman calling for help from the river near the North Pier opposite the Coastguard lookout. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
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Functional Clothing Ltd
CLOTHING IN THE WORLD suppliers of weathe off-shore oil ac and sold c! ! tn thp R N ) the United KM unctional Jacket with Contour Hood No. 4 Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The...
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Only Two
Padstow, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 29th July the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress in Constantine Bay. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The No. 2 motor life-boat...
'Don't let me drown'
‘ I knew I had to keep afloat. Otherwise Peter would come after me. And that thought – if I gave up he would lose his life too – kept me going.’
Peter Severs and Louisa Barrow were in awe as...
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Dell Quay Sales Limited
DORY 17 — ALL WEATHER WORKER TOUGH • UNSINKABLE • FAST RESCUE TENDER For safety there is nothing to beat a Dory ...
Dories come in 3 sizes: 11 ft, 13 ft and 17 ft to meet all needs.
DELL Q U A Y SALES...
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Dell Quay Sales Limited
DORY 17 — ALL. WEATHER WORKER TOUGH • UNSINKABLE • FAST RESCUE TENDER For safety there is nothing to beat a Dory ...
Dories come in 3 sizes: 11 ft, 13 ft and 17 ft to meet all needs.
DELL Q U A Y SALES...
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Stand-off in the storm
When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers
‘With the weather like it...
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