LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gower Pride
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Literature of the Life-Boat: 1806-1936
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
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But I Know a Man Who Does
A new way of dealing with breakdowns! Local staff members of the Automobile Association and their wives took up the strain before setting out from Lisburn to Belfast on their sponsored lorry pull in aid of the RNLI. (Photo Belfast Telegraph)... - View image in PDF
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Cornish Correspondent By John Corin
Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...
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Notes of the Quarter
FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.
These figures are...
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Fishing Boats (1)
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 28th September several Scotch fi>hingboats were making for the harbour in moderate gale from the N.E. and a heavy sea. As it was apparent that danger would be incurred by them in entering the harbour the...
Sophia
PALLING. — While a whole gale was blowing from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th January, intelligence was received that a vessel had gone ashore about a quarter of a mile from Hasborough, and that the services of the...
Patricia Joan
Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...
Trawler in trouble
20 January: Baltimore Help was needed fast when a 20m fishing trawler lost steering near Cape Clear late at night in winds blowing force 4–5, whipping up a 3m swell. Baltimore crew were on hand and, having...
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(Above) Some of the 67 Survivors from the Factory Ship Pionersk Are Landed In Lerwick.
(Above) Some of the 67 survivors from the factory ship Pionersk are landed in Lerwick.. - View image in PDF
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