LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below Right - RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle,
Below right - RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, and lifeboatmen brave the ride and get thoroughly wet in the process!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the local police informed the honorary secretary that cries for help could be heard from the entrance to the river Axe. The life-boat Fifi and Charles...
A Sailing Boat and Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the...
Rito
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
Carmarthen Boat Club
Members of Carmarthen Boat Club present a £400 cheque to Mrs Gwynne Rees, vice-chairman of Carmarthen and Ferryside ladies' guild, following a sponsored parachute jump by 13 club members. George Jones, who broke a leg in the jump,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Douglas, of Guernsey
On the 8th April, the brigantine Douglas, of Guernsey, sprung a leak, and afterwards exhibited signals of distress in Pakefield Eoads, during a very strong gale from the N.E. The Sisters life- boat put out, took off 7 of the vessel's...
Baleful
DINGHY CAPSIZED Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.10 p.m. on 23rd April, 1964, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a dinghy had capsized off the Quern buoy and was drifting towards the Brake buoy with two people on board. At 7.20 the...
March
MARCH Launches 36 Lives rescued 12
MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning,...
Category: Services
The Mumbles (Below): a New Winch Installed In the Boathouse Last January Was Brought Across from Swansea Dock By An Army Landing Craft to Be Hauled Up the Slipway
The Mumbles (below): A new winch, installed in the boathouse last January, was brought across from Swansea Dock by an army landing craft to be hauled up the slipway by the old Webber winch which it is replacing.
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A Yokel's Fair Organised Last July By Customers of the Black Horse Byworth Petworth— Licensee John Waldy—Raised T450 for the Rnll Held In the Grounds of the Inn And
A Yokel's Fair organised last July by customers of the Black Horse, Byworth, Petworth— licensee John Waldy—raised t450 for the RNLl. Held in the grounds of the inn and Roland Sailer's adjoining field, the programme included a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs