LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
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BOLD DIVE Mr. Albert Court, the full-time mechanic of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat, was peacefully ferrying visitors in his own boat across the harbour channel on 4th July, 1971, from the Cockle Strand. There was an cast north easterly wind...
A Yacht
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
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Drama on deck
22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...
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Hattie
On the morning of the 8th July, a boat was observed about four miles from the shore at Bude, with a signal flying. She tacked about several times, as if intending to make Bude. The crew assembled, and the Elizabeth Moore Garden Life-boat...
Diver Boy
Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...
Wilhelmina (1)
RAMSGATE and BROADSTAIRS.—On the morning of the 22nd October the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, proceeded to the Goodwin Sands in reply to...
Boats' Compasses
THE subject of the Mariner's Compass has for many years past been considered a most important one, and has had great attention bestowed on it, especially since the introduction of iron as a material for building ships. Large masses of...
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