LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the Anzio I
ON the night of 2nd /3rd April, 1966, the motor vessel Anzio I went aground.
The Humber life-boat was launched. She was unable to save any lives, but for the attempt which she made in extremely severe conditions Coxswain...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 218)
the harbour entrance when she received a message from Barragutt saying that her steering gear had broken down and she was wallowing in the navigation channel between perches 6 and 7. When crossing the first bar the wire connecting the rudder...
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Eight Shillings to Mend a Life-Boat
THE honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Bridlington has had the fol- lowing letter : The Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Briglinton.
" DEAR SIR, " We have been leaning about...
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Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
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Feathered friend
28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
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Cromdale
During a dense fog on the 23rd May the ship Cromdale, of Aberdeen, was wrecked at Beast Point. The vessel was a large one of 1,849 tons register, bound from Taltal to Plymouth with a cargo of nitrates. Information of the disaster reached...
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
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Early Publicity:
Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins... - View image in PDF
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Loss of Memory
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
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At the Sharp End
PUMP FLOATED ACROSS TO LEAKING CASUALTY IN STORM FORCE WINDS Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number North Division Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when...
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