LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Walmer, Kent.—At 12.26 early on the morning of the 4th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen close inshore north of Deal. At 1.18 the life-boat Thomas lUarkby, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Ethel Ada
Newhaven, Sussex. At 5.30 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a sailing barge was drifting close inshore in Seaford Bay. The life- boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.37 in a fresh...
Bon Pasteur
At 2 a.m. on 10th February, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was aground on the North Goodwin Sands. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 2.17 in a light north easterly breeze...
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in Lantivet Bay, about three miles from Fowey...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.<...
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Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...
The S.S. Brighton
The s.s. Brighton, of Newcastle, whilst bound from the North for Calais "on the llth June, stranded on Deal Bank. The vessel was observed from the shore, and the Reserve Life-boat, which is at present stationed at Deal, was launched...
William Maskill
SWANAGE.—At about 5 A.M. on the 7th March, the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched during a gale from the S.S.E.
and a heavy sea, in response to signals of distress from the schooner William Maskill, of Goole, bound from...
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Yvonne Risager
TWO HOUR WAIT BEFORE ENTERING HARBOUR Dunbar, East Lothian. At. 6.15 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the life-boat coxswain had been told by the skipper of...