LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
Books
Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
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John & Eve Edwards
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March, and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March, and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
TALMINE, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.—• At 4 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1931, the motor vessel Dora, of Wick, while anchored in...
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No ordinary Jo
She made a comedy career from pouring scorn, but when it comes to the sea and those who rescue people from it, Jo Brand is positively gushing
It’s Jo Brand’s turn to jump in. She grabs her...
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Services of the Life-Boats In November and December, 1952, and January and February, 1953. 112 Lives Rescued
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A Fine Service at Broughty Ferry
ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...
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Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
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Reviews
The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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Services of the Life-Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
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