LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hannah Taylor
At 11 A.M on the 27th March the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 received a report stating that a fishing coble had had her rudder broken about one mile south of the harbour. It was blowing a whole gale from the West at the time...
Hi-Hope and Tyn-Tuc
TROUBLE ON THE BAR THE ability to be able to anticipate a dangerous situation is useful at sea and this was demonstrated at Cardigan on 13th August, 1972, when the local ILB was called out before she was actually needed.
At...
Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF
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A Fishing Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 9.40 on the night of the 7th of July, 1955, a message was received from the pilots at Passage that a boat had broken down off Brownstown Head. At 9.55 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out, with the...
H. M. S. Sappho
In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
Men of Courage
Books by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell and Commander H. B. Baothby.
Brave Men All. By Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O. (Hodder & Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net).
Spunyarn. By Commander H....
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The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months September October and November 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
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