LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
French Trawler Keriolet Towed Back In Llfracombe In Storm Force Winds By Charles H Barrett (Civil Service No 35) Clovelly's 70' Clyde Class Lifeboat Photograph By Co
French trawler Kcriolct, towed back In llfracombe in storm force winds by Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), Clovelly's 70' Clyde class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of D. S. Evans. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
Lucky escape
LOCH NESS | 23 MAY
When kayaker Steve McQueen capsized in Loch Ness he was so paralysed by its cold water that he couldn’t swim the 15m to shore. Luckily, his friend made it back afloat and raised the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Eaglescliffe Hall, of Montreal, had been reported drifting, and the life-boat put out twice, but she could not find her. The news came through later that the crew had been rescued by...
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Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.
Webb, on temporary duty at the...
Important Meeting at Grosvenor House
AN Invitation Meeting, called by the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Grosvenor House (by the kind permission of theDUKE OP WESTMINSTER) on the 15th July last, for the purpose of forming a Ladies'...
Category: Meetings
A Sailing Dinghy
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
A Small Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 13th July a visitor set out from Boscombe in a small boat with theobject of rowing to Swanage. He had no knowledge of the tides and got into difficulties. At 3.20 P.M. he was seen by the Swanage...
Presentations at Appledore
The Service to the Lee Bay.
ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...
Category: Services
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FEBRUARY 5TH . - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A raft with a person on board had been reported off Marsden Pit Heap, but it was found to be a paravane. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..