LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eva
The motor Life-boat J. McGonnel Hussey was launched shortly after noon on the 9th May, and saved the pilot coble Eva, of Sunderland, and her occupant.
Information was received that the coble was in distress about two and a...
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
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A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Fishing Smacks
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fishing- boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
The RNLI and me: Ant Middleton
WHO IS ANT MIDDLETON?
Ant Middleton features in Channel 4’s SAS : Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and the forthcoming Escape. Born in Portsmouth and raised in France, Ant followed a career in the armed forces, eventually joining the Royal...
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Loch Fergus
KINGSTOWN.—The barque Loch Fergus, of Liverpool, bound from Glasgow for Brisbane with a general cargo, stranded in Killiney Bay in thick weather, moderate gale from S.E. and a rough sea, on the morning of the 6th February. A tug attempted to...
Formosa
At about 9.30 on the evening of the llth January, signals of distress were observed from a large ship ashore, or nearly so, on the main abreast of Walmer Castle. The weather was very bad with a rough sea and a strong S.W. by S. gale. The...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 9.45 a.m.
on the 16th May, 1967, it was noted that five fishing cobles from Staithes were still at sea and the strong northerly gale which had blown up was making conditions at Staithes harbour...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-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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MARCH 12TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed on land.
- Rewards, £14 15s.