LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sufficiency of Life-Boats In Passenger Ships a Pecuniary Question
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
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One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,
When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF
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Crown of India
DUNGENBSS,KENT.—About 5.30 A.M. on the 26th April the Coastguard watchman sent a message to the Life-boat Station that a four-masted barque was ashore in West Bay. The Coxswain promptly assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat R.A.O.B....
Men of the Lowestoft Crew In the Lord Mayor's Day Procession
Men of the Lowestoft Crew In The Lord Mayor's Day Procession. - View image in PDF
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Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Meets the Llandudno Crew at the Naming Ceremony
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Meets The Llandudno Crew at The Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Cave Pic: View of the Cave at Perranporth, Where the Surfers Were Stuck
Cave pic: View of the cave at Perranporth, where the surfers were stuck. - View image in PDF
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Sunshine, of Bridgwater
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.2 P.M. on the 3rd December, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor ketch anchored in the harbour was flying a signal of distress. A whole N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The...
The S.S. Flamma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.18 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1951, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flamma had sent a message asking for a doctor.
At 10.10 the...
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
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Eight Men and a Dog Rescued from the Rocks
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...
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