LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
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Past and Present
5O years ago From the pages of the LIFEBOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 7 of March 1942 30 MONTHS OF WAR In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4630 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last...
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SPECIAL DELIVERY
HAPPY MEMORIES
RESCUE IN WARTIME
A scenic seascape in our last issue got one reader thinking of childhood holidays – and old RNLI friends
The lovely photograph of Ballycotton Harbour on page 23 of the summer...
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The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti (1)
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
Capri
— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...
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Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...
Ranzo
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...
Marie McClements
FISHING VESSEL AGROUND ON ROCKS Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.42 on the morning of the 29th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Marie McClements of Portavogie was aground near the South Rock. The...
Dauntless
LOBSTER BOAT AGROUND ON SHEEP ROCK Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.26 on the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August, 1963, the Southend coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the Portpatrick coastguard had reported the...
The American Steamer S.S. Wakulla, of Los Angeles
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, which had...