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A Kayak
On Sunday 11 June 2006, a man launched his flat-topped kayak at Perranporth in Cornwall in anticipation of an afternoon's fun. Soon however he was overwhelmed by 2m surf. It washed him, out of control, round into a rocky cove and threw...
Two Fishing Cobles of Flamborough, The Doreen May and The Pioneer
NOVEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two fishing cobles of Flamborough, the Doreen May and the Pioneer, were fishing off Flamborough Head. The weather was getting worse, and by eleven in the morning a north-easterly gale was blowing, with...
The Danish Motor Fishing Boat Koivisto
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
Waree, of Dundalk
LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1909-1910
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Category: Charts
Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
Arbel
APRIL 13TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. Later it was learned that the flares were Holmes lights of the lifebuoys of the Belgian steamer Arbel, of Antwerp, which were...
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. on duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. On duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...
Category: Correspondence
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...