LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teymar (6)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
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The S.S. Glendenning
JANUARY 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 11 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the rocks close to the east pier.
A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing, with very heavy seas. The motor life-boat...
Rescue By the Mablethorpe Life-Boat. 28th November, 1912. By Charles Moss, Author of "Bible Angels," Etc
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Brave little Mablethorpe, Fair little Mablethorpe, Haven of rest for the young and the old; Where, in the summertime, Silver seas lazily Bipple o'er sands of a glittering gold.II.
England is proud...
Category: Poetry
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
Category: Articles
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
Category: Articles
New Appointments and Staff Retirements
Commander H. B. ACWORTH, O.B.E., R.N., has been appointed Assistant Chief Inspector from the ist January, 1964. He was previously District In- spector (General).
Mr. R. D. PIKE has been appointed Assistant District...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (32)
NOV. 19TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea. The life-boat could find no trace of her, and news was later received that the aeroplane herself was picked up by a trawler, but that its crew was missing. ...
A Steamer (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. News had been received of a steamer sinking, and a later message said that she had sunk, but nothing was found, and a patrol vessel nearby was believed to have rescued the crew. -...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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