LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
A Bathtub
THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...
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Army Helps the Life-Boat Service
DURING July, 1968, the track to the life-boat station at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was repaired by a squadron of Royal Engineers. The station is four miles from the town and about a mile from the public road, access being by a private track...
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The Royal Air Force Launch 1659
Holyhead, Anglesey-At 7.16 p.m.
on 26th January, 1970, red flares were reported about five miles south west of the South Stack lighthouse.
The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a...
Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...
The Royal Air Force Launch No. 1653
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.1 on the afternoon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal Air Force launch No. 1653 had broken down off Jurby Head. At 4.15 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched...
Life-Boat Services In 1909
Lives saved.
Evelyn, brig, of Carnarvon — landed 8 on two occasions, Falcon, ketch, of Cardiff ....... 3 Ferguslie, s.s., of Glasgow— as- sisted to save vessel.
Fishing boats of Berwick, Boulmer, Crail,...
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Services to German Yachts. Thanks of the Institution to Clacton-On-Sea
THERE were exceptionally heavy gales at the end of May and the beginning of June, 1938. Thirty-two life-boats were launched on service during the five days from 29th May to 2nd June, the majority on the south-east and south coasts, and they...
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August
Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
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