LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
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The S.S. Ringwood
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.57 in the morning on the 4th of August, 1951, the Needles coastguard telephoned the life-boat authorities that the S.S.
Ringwood had reported people from a capsized boat hanging on to Sconce...
A History of Bridlington Life-Boats
UNDER the title Men of the Storm, Mr.
H.'E. Whittaker, of Bridlington, has written the history of the Bridlington life-boat station. Mr. Whittaker has also produced and published the book himself and is generously...
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The S.S. Escurial
HAYLE, CORNWALL. — The Life-boat K F. Harrison was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Escurial, of Glasgow, |which, having been disabled in a heavy gale, drifted ashore off Portieath. on the 25th January. The boat was taken on her...
My Lady
POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to...
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R. T. B.
On the 15th February at about 5 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from W.8.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather with rain, the ketch R. T. B., of Bridgwater, laden with flour from Plymouth for Cardiff, was seen about two...
Awards for "Calculated Courage"
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been awarded to seven men who put out in the Portrush life-boat to search for survivors from a Norwegian frigate on ist November, 1965.
At 9.16 that morning Mr. W. R....
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Disaster at Fraserburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...
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