LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Whether it’s a remote, rugged shoreline or gentle seaside spot, there’s a desire to visit...
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An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
Three Medals In Twelve Months.
Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...
Category: Articles
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
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A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
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A mare story with a snappy ending! Racehorses rescued during floods AC rocodile making its way lazily down the hallway of a flooded home gave lifeboatman Kevin Keillor the shock of his life..
On 26 April 2000, Kevin and...
A Catamaran
Two crew rescued from disabled catamaran after rigging cut free Falmouth lifeboat coxswain Alan Barnes and crew member Peter Wood have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two people and...
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
Keeping on track
Getting 15 tonnes of lifeboat across a beach is an age-old task …
Lifeboat launch and recovery is a vital link in the lifesaving chain and the stations that cannot use afloat moorings, slipways...
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Dare
CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...