LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Life-saving Service in the United States, which is a branch of the Govern- ment, has recently issued its Annual Report, giving full particulars of its operations during the year which ended on the 30th June, 1896.
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Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1974 Aith, Shetland September 25 Aldeburgh, Suffolk October 10 and November 13 Arklow, Co. Wicklow October 30 and November 5 Arranmore, Co. Donegal November 20,...
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Feeling the force
Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st March to the 30th June 1879
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Light- ship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the E. part of the...
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Boy Jimmy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 4.45 p.m.
on the 12th of April, 1950, the chair- man of the local life-boat station re- ported a mine drifting south through the Sound of Islay directly in the line of shipping using the sound....
Betty II
At 2.30 P.M. on the 29th September the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was in trouble off The Foreland. A little later another message was received that the boat had been taken in tow, but that a motor boat in Minnis Bay was in dis...
Mayflower
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 4.22 on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received from the skipper of the fishing vessel Wiseman that the local fishing vessel Mayflower was ashore at Cairnbulg Point. At 4.36 the life-boat...
Kirkley
EIGHT SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM TRAWLER Caister, Norfolk. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 8th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had sighted red flares north-east of Caister. The motor...
The S.S. Aghios Georgios II
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO LEBANESE STEAMER Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 30th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Eastbourne honorary secretary that a ship had been reported on fire four miles south of...