LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Water-Logged Empty Boat
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 12.2 in the morning the coastguard reported that cries for help could be heard off the coastguard lookout. A fresh westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat The...
Anapira
HAETLEPOOI.— On the otfa December the schooner Anapira, of Newburgfa, was observed about seven miles E.N.E. of Hartlepool. At the time a, most severe gale was raging, accompanied by sleet showers and a heavy sea. At 2.30 she was seen to put...
Spirit
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
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The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...
Our Need
AUGUST 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 7.30 P.M . the fishing smack Our Need, of Lowestoft, owned by a salvage firm and bound light from Lowestoft to Oban, with a crew of four, ran aground on the rocks about half a...
The New Steam Life-Boat, "City of Glasgow."
THIS Life-boat, a full description of which was given in No. 171 of our Journal last February, was sufficiently far ad- vanced to attend the highly successful " Life - boat Saturday " demonstration which took place in Glasgow on...
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Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1942 During the year life-boats were launched 443 times. Of these launches 244 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...
Category: Services
Contents
Contents 0 0 254 Lifeboat Services 256 "I7r.|1irn_ A/T 7TTT Fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference, Gothenburg, by Ray Kipling, V UlUIIlC yV-L V ill Public Relations Officer, RNLI 262 Number 485 What are lifeboats made of?, by...
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Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
Charles Livingstone
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...