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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
Feature Tamar Tales
As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Postage Stamps
THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...
Category: Advertisement
York City and Junella and Gertrude
Aberdeen.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 29th of January, 1956, the coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Stone- haven radio station that the trawlers York City, of Grimsby, and Junella, of Hull, had picked up...
Jane Cameron and Gleaner, and Mermaid
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 25th November, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was taken to Margate Roads in tow of the Ramsgate Harbour steam-tug Aid, during a strong N.N.E. gale and heavy sea, when she succeeded in saving the crew of 5 men from...
Ocean Lover
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.55 in the morning a message was received from the naval control for food to be taken to the drifter Ocean Lover, which had been lying a mile east of the boom for four days owing to thick fog...
M.F.V. Karemma
Crew of five rescued ABERDEEN LIFEBOAT, the 52' Bamett Ramsay-Dyce, slipped her moorings at 1854 on Friday, March 12, and headed for Aberdeen Bay, after information had been received from HM Coastguard that MFV Karemma was broken down...
The Barges Butcher and Maria, and Violet
SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—During a heavy gale from the S.W. and a rough sea, on the 14th October, the Boys of England Life-boat rescued the crews, consisting of four men in all, from the distressed barges Butcher and Maria, of...
It's Cold and You'Re Tired and Hungry
It's cold, and you're tired and hungry - but the boat comes first. Crew members from Salcombe lend a willing hand as Princess Royal takes fuel soon after first light on a grey and chilly morning in Salcombe. after her overnight... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gratitude and Evelyn and Margaret
APRIL 4TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the early afternoon a heavy ground swell was running from the north-east. Incoming fishing cobles reported that the seas were growing, with broken water at the harbour entrance. A...