LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nellie
At about 3 P.M. on the 8th December signals of distress were observed from the fishing- boat Nellie, which had put to sea for the purpose of taking in their nets.
The Life-boat Theodore Price was launched and reached the...
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Atlantic clear of the water twice in race to man in waterA service by New Brighton's Atlantic 21 on 5 March 1995 to a man in the water has led to the a ward of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum to Helmsman Michael Jones....
The Lowestoft Life-Boat. By Commander Basil Hall, R.N.
LOWESTOFT, the most easterly point of these Islands, and consequently the nearest to the coast of our enemy, has had since the outbreak of the War more services to its credit than any other Life-boat Station in the United Kingdom, the boat...
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Ellen, of Llanelly
Two days afterwards the same Life-boat was again launched during a gale from the S.S.W., and in a heavy sea, and assisted the barque Elltn, of Llanelly, into a place of safety, she being in distress at the time.
It was not...
Silver Medal Awarded to Hampshire Cafe Proprietor
SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...
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A Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.38 a.m. on 5th July. 1966, it was reported that a small boat with a crew of four had capsized in the Solent. Two men had been rescued and it was thought the other two were near the Norris buoy. The life-boat...
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd March, 1967, news was received that a sick child at North Ronaldsay required immediate hospital attention. The patient was embarked on the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman which slipped her mooring...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us and Ocean Venture
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.55 p.m. on 8th February, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea on the harbour bar was becoming very bad and that two local motor fishing vessels, Lead Us and Ocean Venture, were still at sea....
An Aeroplane (67)
AUGUST 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 1.32 A.M. the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in the sea. The weather was calm. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Philpott was launched at 2 A.M. When she was off Ecclesbourne...