LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Atlantic rescues two boys cut off by the tide Framed Letters of Appreciation signed by the Institution's Chairman have been sent to Helmsman Michael Picknett and crew members Michael Hoyle, Barry Knaggs and Gordon Young following a...
Saga
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Lena Broden
AUGUST 6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 1.30 in the afternoon the Swedish Iron Ore Co., Middlesbrough, telephoned that their motor vessel Lena Broden was off that port and needed a pilot. The sea was too heavy for the pilot cutter to put out,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW ROMNEY, KENT ; PORTHLEVEN, CORN- WALL ; SWANSEA, WALES ; ARBROATH and PORTPATRICK, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boats placed on these Stations many years since have recently been superseded by new boats furnished by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
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June
Launches 28 Lives rescued 80
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind...
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Guiding Star
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — Information was brought to this Life-boat Station on the morning of the 14th February of a wreck on Skerries Island. The wind was blowing half a gale from S.W. at the time. The Lifeboat Ashtonian was immediately launched...
Bon Accord
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...
Olga and Ruth Topping
The Life-boat was also launched at 9.20 P.M. on the 28th November, in response to signals of distress, and proceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the brig Olga, of Frederickstadt, and put a pilot on board. It was found that...
Diana
The ketch Diana, of Rye, bound from that port to St. Andrews with a cargo of gravel, arrived on the 13th April, but was unable to make the harbour owing to the state of the tide. The captain there- fore anchored about a mile to the north of...
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...