LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kylin
Wells, Norfolk - On ifth September, 1966, the Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat rescued a man and his dog from the yacht Kylin. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
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Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...
On a Lee Shore
off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...
Category: Drawings
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (8)
NOVEMBER 15TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
A fishing boat at anchor had gone ashore when the rope broke, but she did not need the help of the life-boat. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d..
A Motor Schooner
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A motor schooner had grounded, but she refloated and after she had drifted for a time her anchor held and she did not need the services of the life-boat.
- Rewards, £30 15s..<...
A Steamer (8)
JUNE 21ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A steamer, damaged by striking a rock or wreckage, had been beached, but she did not need the help of the life-boat.- Rewards, £31 12s. 6d.
New Books and a Play
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
Category: Articles
Two French Fishing Smacks
On the 31st De- cember, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Dungeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the Providence, was...
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A Fine Cromer Service.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success," though none deserve it better than a Life-boat crew, battling with the elements for the lives of their fellowmen.
It is our...