LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Three saved — • , — --. -—— from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
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February
Launches 34. Lives rescued 55.
FEBRUARY 5 T H . - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased....
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The Fundraisers
Blackpool push the boat out Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed...
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News and Views
Prince Charles visits Rock Rock lifeboat station personnel were delighted and honoured to be visited by HRH The Prince of Wales just four days after their new boathouse was opened. Prince Charles had shown much interest in the new lifeboat...
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July
JULY 11TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
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Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
Euphemia Fullerton
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — A messenger having brought information at 1.30 P.M. on the 6th February that a vessel was ashore on the north end of the Long Kock, the crew of the Admiral HenryMeynell Life-boat at once assembled, and crowds of the...