LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Transatlantic Liner Minnehaha
At 1.30 A.M. on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was firing guns apparently on the rocks to the west of Bryher, and at about the same time the Bishop's Rock Light-house fired signals for the Life- boat. The crew of...
The Motor Fishing Coble Onward
OCT. 4TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.45 A.M. the Craster coastguard reported that the motor fishing coble Onward was disabled a mile off the harbour. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
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Devil Woman
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 4.41 p.m.
on 18th October, 1969, a message was received that a boat appeared to be in difficulties half a mile west of the Rock light. At 4.55 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, on...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1895
Jan. 10.—Voted 11. to two men, with thanks to one of them, for saving the crew of three men from a coastguard boat which was capsized off Shanagau Point, co. Antrim, in a squall on the 8th November.
Also 31. 10s. to seven...
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Hartlepool
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM On the 26th January, 1942, the Hartlepool life-boat rescued five of the crew of the S.S. Hawkwood, of London.
LIEUT. WILLIAM H. BENNISON, C.G.M., R.N.V.R., coxswain of the lifeboat, was awarded the gold...
Category: Medals
Clarke, Chapman and Co. Ltd
Clarke, Chapman Ships' Auxiliary Machinery BACKED by three quarters of a century of experience in the manufacture of Deck Auxiliaries, the Company has built up a tradition of efficiency and dependability which extends throughout the...
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Two Dinghies (1)
TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine...
Janorma
Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.10 p.m. on nth December, 1966, a small vessel was seen to be in distress about one and a half miles west of the pier. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30} was launched at...
Edith Crossfield
Shortly after mid-clay on the 25th May the Chief Officer of Coastguard reported tbat he had just received a telegram from Swansea, stating that the captain of the s.s. Tyne had reported a ship- wrecked crew on the North Bishop's Rock....
Hannah's paddle mission
Transatlantic sailor Hannah White paddled up a wave of RNLI support in September during a record-breaking 205-mile solo kayak challenge.
Hannah, who is also an adventurer and broadcaster, became the first person to paddle...
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