LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 4. The Rev John Raymond, Honorary Secretary of the Llandudno (Ormes Head) Branch
A LIFE-BOAT STATION was established at Llandudno sixty-one years ago, and for more than half that time, for thirty-one years, the Honorary (Secretary of the Branch has been the Rev. John Raymond, pastor during the whole of that time of the...
Category: Articles
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 3. Mr. J. A. Gardiner, Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown, Southend, and Machrihanish Branch
BEFORE Mr. Gardiner became Honorary Secretary of the Campbeltown Branch, he had had an adventurous career in many parts of the world. He was the second son of Sheriff Gardiner, and began his career in the office of a big Glasgow...
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Amble Harbour Day
Amble harbour day gained magnificent support from the local community with over £5,000 resulting from the branch and guild's efforts. The North East Windsurfers' Association raised over £2,000 of this total with their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Mirage
Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...
August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Nicholas
Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...
A Sailboard, PowerBoats and a Yacht
Anticipatory launch ends in eight calls on two lifeboats Eastbourne South East Division Both of Eastbourne's lifeboats were launched in anticipation of problems on 17 July 1988, when freshening conditions on the day of the London to...
The Record Month by Month
The Record Month by Month 1946 Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore boats Rescue to Save Boats January . 51 103 4 15 - February . ...
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