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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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1894
THE pressure of work thrown on the Board of Trade last year was so great that the Department was unable to issue until the close of the year their very valuable "Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which occurred on or near the Coasts...
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The S.S. Asia
During a fresh westerly breeze with rough sea, in the early morning of the 20th April, the s.s. Asia, of Bremen, bound from Savannah to Bremen, stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
In response to the signals from the...
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
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Two Gallant Life-Boat Rescues
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
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Moelfre Rose
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.
The coxswain was asked to...
The Bronze Medal for Gallantry Was Awarded to Coxswain William Morris for the Service on March 11 Ofst David's Lifeboat the 47Ft Watson Joseph Soar (Civil Service
The bronze medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain William Morris for the service on March 11 ofSt David's lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Joseph Soar (Civil Service No 34), to MFV 7.
photograph by courtesy of RAF... - View image in PDF
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December 28 1973: Engineer from the Hull Trawler Lord Nelson With Badly Fractured Leg Being Taken Abroad Calouste Gulbenkian on Relief Duty at Bridlington
December 28, 1973: engineer from the hull trawler * *~ Lord Nelson, with badly fractured leg, being taken abroad Calouste Gulbenkian, on relief duty at Bridlington. It was the second service for the lifeboat and her crew in an | hour and a... - View image in PDF
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Elleana
Wells, Norfolk.—About 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Elleana, of Great Yarmouth, appeared to be in difficulties outside the harbour. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at noon...
The Life-Boat Service In 1932
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 111 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 66 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1933 - 63,209 The Life-boat Service in 1932.
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