LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ilmatar
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—At 2 A.M. on the 18th May, the Russian barque Ilmatar got ashore off Dungeness, during a fresh gale at E.N.E., a heavy sea running. The Lifeboats Lifeboats on this part of the coast are mainly dependent on the coastguardmen...
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
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Offshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aith, Shetland December 10.
Amble, Northumberland December 9, 19 and January 28.
Anstruther, Fife December 13.
Arbroath, Angus December 22.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow December...
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Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aldeburgh, Suffolk August 9 Amble, Northumberland July 4 Angle, Dyfed June 2, 24, July 3, 8 and August 15 (twice) Anstruther, Fife June 15 and August 28 Appledore, North Devon June 10 and July 31 Arklow, Wicklow July 12, 18, 21 and August 16...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Awards on the Closing of Stations.
ALNMOUTH.
JOHN W. STEWART, 12J years second cox- swain and 8$ years a member of the crew, a life-boatman's certificate of service, and a pension.
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Launches
Aberdeen ON-1248 Mar?.Apr1. AprlS.
Apr27, Apr30 0-538. Apr30 Abersoch B-582 Apr12.May6|x2) Aberystwyth B-704 Marl1.Apr21[x2).May5.
May10(x2|. May19. Mav24. May26 A.U:II i_i__.j Achill island ON- 1240. MaM6...
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Notes of the Quarter
WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...
Category: Articles
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
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Index to the Branches
PACK PAGE PAGE PAGE | FAOF ABERDEEN . . 502 CHELTENHAM . . 464 HAYLING . . .465 NKWBIGGIN . . 484 1...
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