LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Tender Pendonna
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.47 on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen near the Bull lightvessel. A strong east-south-easterly wind was blowing, and the sea...
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
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Air Bag Installation
BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...
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A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.
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Sea Breeze
NUMBED WITH COLD Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 4.5 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Sea Breeze, of Aber- ayron, was making distress signals about a quarter of a mile...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
A Canoe (2)
Salcombe, Devon. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people in a canoe were stranded on the rocks at Steeple Cove near Bolt Head. At 3.35 on the ebbing tide the...
Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
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The Motor Dinghy Jaime Lewis
CRIES FOR HELP Poole, Dorset. At 10.45 p.m. on 1st May, 1964, cries for help were heard coming from the harbour from the direction of Stakes buoy. The Institution's rubber dinghy manned by the life-boat's motor mechanic and a member...
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer
BY winning a second-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of the two men from the barge Sepoy, as described on page 197, Coxswain Henry G. Blogg has equalled a record which has stood in the history of the Institution for...
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