LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain
FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
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Contents
Contents Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XL VIII The Naming of the 52ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/ 85 Number 480 Grim but Glorious: the days of oar and sail, by Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI 86 Chairman • Annual General Meeting...
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Caught in a trap
An off-duty RNLI lifeguard was in the right place at the right time when two surfers were trapped in a perilous position on St Ouen’s Beach, Jersey
Ed Stevens was leaving the car park at St...
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St Simeon (2)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
Nan McMarrar
Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a motor fishing boat was ashore off Ayr harbour. At eleven o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of...
Team Philips
Team Philips is towed to safety Pete Goss' attempt to break the Jules Verne record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation hit a stumbling block during sea trials on 29 March when his catamaran. Team Philips, lost part of her...
Elantsobe
The steamer Elantsobe, of Bilbao, a steamer carrying a crew of twenty-four hands, stranded on the Middle Binks on the 2nd Decem- ber, whilst bound to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron. It was blowing a strong S.W. by W. gale, and a very...
Ben Venue
PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. — During the night of the 5th April the wind, which had been blowing strongly from the north-west, increased to a whole gale, the sea becoming extremely rough, and about 10.30 A.M. on the following morning...
H.M. Drifter Reed
NOVEMBER 7TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. During the afternoon news came that a vessel had been mined south of Holland Point. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Edward Z....
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WINTER 2015 LOTTERY RESULTS
Congratulations to Mrs M Croain from Hampshire, who
won the £5,000 first prize in our Winter Lifeboat Lottery.
The other winners were:
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