LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WAVING ANNIE GOODBYE
Wicklow lifeboat crew reflect on 30 years of lifesaving with the last of the Tyne class lifeboats – the Annie Blaker
In 1982, Dexy’s Midnight Runners got the world on the dancefloor. A little boy named William became third...
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Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
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Homeward Bound
Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
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Lifeboats In Action
Two saved in harbour dramaFaced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
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A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
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The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
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Latifa
Hurricane tow AT ABOUT 1515 on Thursday, October 14, 1976, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station that the 52-ton yacht Latifa had requested assistance off Portland Bill. She had damaged sails, a shattered...