LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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When it was learnt that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Sarclet Head on 2nd July, the Wick, Caithness, life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 10 p.m.
On reaching Sarclet Head the body of the man could be seen in...
John M.
Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...
Lynian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.30 on the night of the 6th of August, 1958, a fisherman on returning ashore re- ported to the signal station that he had seen a flare east of Herm. He had carried out a search but had found nothing. At one...
Rnli National Lottery
THIRTEEN PRIZES were drawn in the RNLFs twenty-third national lottery on October 28, 1983, by 13 special guests to Poole HQ, all of whom had been involved in the National Soap Box Grand Prix, which, held at Blakesley, Northamptonshire, had...
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Alanfred
JUNE 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W. was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
The S.S. Charles Parsons
DECEMBER 25TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At 6.50 P.M. on Christmas Day information was received, through the coastguard, that distress signals had been seen, and the life-boat crew were assembled. At 7.35 P.M. the naval authorities reported that...
A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast
EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...
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The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
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Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...
Ocean Pride
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—While the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was at sea on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1938, for her monthly exercise, she received a signal from the coastguard that a yacht was in a dangerous position...