LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marbi
Two injured seamen THE COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT of Humber lifeboat station, Brian Bevan, was informed by Humber Coastguard at 2103 on Friday, October 1, 1976, that the Belgian trawler Marbi was heading for the Humber with two injured crewmen...
2000 Rescue Statistics
RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.
This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...
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Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
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Swimming and Swimming Schools
WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea. The crew of three were seen clinging to...
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Excellent and Catherine
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no...
Arosette
Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney...
Gratitude, of Aberystwith,
On the 28th Feb. this life-boat again went out in reply to signals of distress from the schooner Gratitude, of Aberystwith, which, while attempting to cross the bar in a heavy ground sea, had struck on the edge of the North Bank." It...
Proficient
DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400...
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