LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation
blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...
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Contents
Contents RNLI News. 75 Volume L Number 498 Lifeboat Services. 77 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL The RNLI in Ireland, by Edward Wake-Walker 83 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Waiting for Rescue part II, by J. D....
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Ballasting Boats
IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
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Mary
Hythe, Kent.—At about 8.15 P.M. on the 23rd May, 1939, the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul. There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her engine...
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Friends of the RNLI
This year, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines are celebrating their 170th anniversary – and their 50th year of supporting the RNLI. Since 1968, Fred. Olsen guests and crew have taken pride in raising funds for the RNLI. And since 2000 alone, their... - View image in PDF
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Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
Atlantic Coast
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.15 on the evening of the 7th July, 1961, the Chief Constable of Yar- mouth asked for the life-boat to meet a ship in the Yarmouth roads and collect a body which had been picked up about five...