LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boats and Life-Buoys
UNDER the above heading the Board of Trade have issued a Circular, No. 646, July, 1873, which.is to come into action on the 1st January, 1874. It is supple- mentary to the 292nd Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which up to the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
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Woodlock
During a whole W. by S. gale on the night of the 28th-29th December the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to the assistance of a vessel which was in difficulties near the Middle Shoebury Buoy. The Life-boat found the tug Woodcock,...
A Dinghy (2)
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
Anmara
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
IRB Launches North-West District
Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...
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IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in April were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Torbay, Devon - At 3.35 p.m. on ist April, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Paignton. The IRB was launched at 3.47 in a moderate to fresh south by westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water....
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Designing for the Future
At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.
in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...
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The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXVIII. HARWICH.—The Springwett, 45 feet by 11 feet, 12 oars.
HARWICH, standing on the extremity of a tongue of land or narrow peninsula pro- jecting into the estuary of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is said to have risen...
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Eugenie Auguste
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Euncorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...