LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
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33 calls round the island
Almost 2,000 vessels registered to circumnavigate the Isle of Wight in this year’s Round the Island Race on 25 June. Force 6–7 winds and swells of up to 3m meant a busy day for five lifeboat crews, with 23 incidents in all. Cowes’s B class...
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Grace Darling Centenary. Opening of a Memorial Museum at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849
Grace Darling...
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A Sailing Boat (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...
Emma, of Shields
On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.
those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...
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Faith, Glynn, Seaview, Queen of The West, Maria Reid,Edith Ma
During a moderate easterly gale on the 31st October, several vessels which were at anchor off Rosslare Harbour got into a dangerous position owing to their anchors not holding. Seeing they were in danger, Coxswain Hayes launched the...
Epomeo
EIGHT ABOARD YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 12.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Epomeo had engine trouble and would probably need help. At 12.30 the coastguard confirmed this,...
£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.
Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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