LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Life-Boat's Trip of 669 Miles
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
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Out of the race
COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR AND BALTIMORE | 17 JUNE
A solo yachtswoman was in a race from Falmouth to Baltimore when she lost power and steering off the Cork coast in a force 6. Courtmacsherry and Baltimore...
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New RNLI award
Lifeguards Nick Dowrick, Gareth Howarth, Tom Burgess and Emma Williams are to be presented with the inaugural Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award this Summer.
The new annual award is for the most meritorious rescue by RNLI...
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Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
A Ship Annie E Hooper, of Baltimore U.S
On the 20th October the Lytham life-boat again rendered a very important service. The American ship Annie E. Hooper, of Balti- more, U.S., 1,140 tons burden, with a crew of 18 men, and a cargo of wheat, flour, and tobacco, stranded on the...
Danube, of Belfast
on 6th March, saved 17 men from the ship Danube, of Belfast..
Sapphire, of Glasgow
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Nautigel
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 10.5 on the night of the 22nd of June, 1954, the Kilkeel coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat Nautigel, of Warrenpoint, had capsized in Carling- ford Lough, and that three people were clinging to her. At...