LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pull of the ocean
She’s the first woman to row the ‘big three’ solo, but environmentalist Roz Savage has another mission that needs the help of millions
At 34, Roz Savage had what she calls a midlife crisis....
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Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act, 1873
IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
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Capella
SKIPPER'S BROKEN ARM Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about two miles east- north-east of Queen's Pier, and the motor life-boat Lady...
The Sailing Barge Esterel
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.— At 1.5 in the morning of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen four miles to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.30....
Nancy Dennis and Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 7.30 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, a north gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea.
Several of the local fishing cobles were at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
Beiren
SAW RED FLARE At ii.10 p.m. on lyth May, 1964, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning a red flare five to six miles off Portwrinkle.
Twenty-two minutes later the life-boat...
Sally
TOW FOR TUG AFTER ENGINE BREAKS DOWN Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Sally of Rochester, which had a crew of two and was bound for Swansea,...
Shantimere
Dungeness, Kent - At 6.8 p.m. on 21st June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was firing flares two miles north east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
The Hythe Life-Boat Crew's Concert
A CONCERT, largely arranged and carried out by the Crew of the Motor Life-boat, was held at Hythe, Kent, on 29th and 30th January last. The notices warned purchasers of tickets that if a call for the Life-boat came, the concert would be...
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