LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Drifter Curlew
At 11.30 A.M. on the 24th Novem- ber the reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford I (on temporary duty at this station), which had already been out earlier in the day to search for a vessel reported ashore, see page 414), put out again, as...
The Life-Boat Service In 1949
Ix 1949 the Life-boat Service set up a new record. Its life-boats went out to the rescue 639 times. That is the largest number there has ever been in time of peace. In time of war it has been exceeded only thrice, in 1939, 1940 and 1941.<...
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Temple Insurance
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MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...
Flores
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.
ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...
Shield and H.M. Drifter Rowantree
NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....
The Cashier
LITTLE HAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, intelligence was received that a large barque which was lying in St. Bride's Bay was dragging her anchors and was...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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"All Sich Things As the Like o' That."
Pulling Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...
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